{"id":1114,"date":"2006-12-14T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/marie_antoinette.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T17:53:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:53:36","slug":"marie-antoinette-%e2%80%93-good-style-does-not-fill-two-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"<em>Marie Antoinette<\/em> \u2013 good style does not fill two hours."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed the first thirty minutes of <em>Marie Antoinette<\/em>. Kirsten Dunst is, of course, enchanting and does not need <em>Spiderman<\/em> kissing her to show how charming she is. I also enjoyed the camera, the intimate perspective on the way the soon-to-be Queen of France experiences her world. And it is a strange world, full of exquisite beauty but also full of protocol and, in particular, far, far away from the world of the bourgeois or \u2013 unthinkable \u2013 the poor and the workers. In this world, Marie Antoinette has a few friends and many, many things around her: jewelry, tapestries, clothes, more clothes, shoes, shoes, and then some more shoes and an excess of delicacies. Looking at this assembly of beautiful and delicous things through the eyes of <span lang=\"fr\">La Dauphine<\/span> and mixing this experience with a well-chosen rock music soundtrack (instead of resorting to classical music <q>appropriate<\/q> to the era) creates a particular movie that is definitely worthwile watching. If only the story would be more catching! The script did not offer much to stimulate my attention so that I had to resort to watching in <q>aesthetic mode<\/q> \u2013 doing this for two hours was a bit too much, to my regret. Nonetheless, I am looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001068\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for Sofia Coppola\">Sofia Coppola\u2019s<\/a> next movie. There is some really great potential \u2013 I love her intimate and respectful view on people\u2019s lives and the ways in which they see, touch, and feel their world. I also vote for more rock music in medieval settings: <em>A Knight\u2019s Tale<\/em> is one of my favorite entertainment movies, though cheesy it has a lot of heart. This story did not unfold in a way that really touched me, very much to my regret.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0422720\/\"><abbr title=\"Internet Movie Database\">IMDb<\/abbr> entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/sony_pictures\/marieantoinette\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed the first thirty minutes of Marie Antoinette. Kirsten Dunst is, of course, enchanting and does not need Spiderman kissing her to show how charming she is. I also enjoyed the camera, the intimate perspective on the way the soon-to-be Queen of France experiences her world. And it is a strange world, full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[169,193,143,194],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-france","tag-kirsten-dunst","tag-medieval","tag-sofia-coppola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}