3.31 - MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) and Anarchy
(The audio from Rob gets better about 7 min in...)
Our next Sofia Coppola film is her 2006 historical biopic MARIE ANTOINETTE. We talk about decadence, loneliness, and why this film tries to several very interesting things — but doesn’t quite succeed in pulling them off.
<u>Next Week</u>
We conclude our Coppola mini-season with her most recent film, 2017’s THE BEGUILED. Will it be LOST IN TRANSLATION, mark 2, or another MARIE ANTOINETTE? Find out here: https://www.amazon.co.<wbr />uk/dp/B074P9VGN4.
<u>This Week’s Media</u>
ELLA MINNOW PEA (2001): Mark Dunn
WESTWORLD (2016–): Jonathan Nolan, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandi Newton
<u>Recommendations</u>
THE DREAMERS (2003): Bernardo Bertolucci, Michael Pitt, Eva Green
THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS (2004): Asia Argento, Jimmy Bennett, Dylan Sprouse
CLUELESS (1995): Amy Heckerling, Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash
SPY (2015): Paul Feig, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne
<u>Footnotes</u>
Firstly, here are the Wikipedia pages we mentioned that you could before (or during!) this movie: https://en.wikipedia.<wbr />org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette, htt<wbr />ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr />List_of_French_consorts, https<wbr />://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_<wbr />of_French_monarchs, and (if you’re Sam) https://en.wikipedia.org/<wbr />wiki/Window. This is a good book on the representation of anarchy in culture: https://books.google.<wbr />co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=<wbr />fRR8eWzRhbYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=<wbr />anarchy+politics&ots=9Qg-<wbr />eG03Ia&sig=QNjqdX-<wbr />8VuFeHx2SOEaQ9QYpcWU#v=<wbr />onepage&q=anarchy%20politics&<wbr />f=false, and these are both good on the relationship between anarchy and punk (self-consciously alluded to by the opening titles, as we discussed): https://books.<wbr />google.co.uk/books?id=<wbr />sXeFAgAAQBAJ&dq=anarchy+punk&<wbr />lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s and <wbr />https://books.google.co.uk/<wbr />books?id=vRtLRAmcNF0C&dq=<wbr />anarchy+punk&lr=&source=gbs_<wbr />navlinks_s. Finally, here’s a list of alternatives to this week’s film, if you’re interested in the period: http://www.bfi.org.uk/<wbr />news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/<wbr />10-great-films-set-18th-<wbr />century.