Marie Antoinette (2006)

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Movie
German title Marie Antoinette
Original title Marie Antoinette
MARIEANTOINETTEMOVIE2006.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Sofia Coppola
script Sofia Coppola
production Sofia Coppola,
Francis Ford Coppola ,
Ross Katz
music Dustin O'Halloran
camera Lance Acord
cut Sarah Flack
occupation
synchronization

Marie Antoinette is an American film directed by Sofia Coppola from the year 2006 . It depicts the life of the Austrian Archduchess and French Queen Marie Antoinette and is based on the biography of Antonia Fraser . The premiere took place on 24 May 2006 as part of the competition at the film festival in Cannes instead. The film opened in German cinemas on November 2, 2006; the Austrian film launch took place one day later.

action

The only fourteen year old Austrian Archduchess Maria Antonia is supposed to marry the French Dauphin (heir to the throne). Before leaving for the French court, her mother, Empress Maria Theresia , instructs her about her future role. During her bridal trip , she has to surrender everything Austrian when stepping on French soil - from clothes to her lap dog - and is completely re-dressed. Arriving in Versailles , she marries the heir to the throne, Ludwig, who enjoys hunting but neglects his marital duties. The consummation of the marriage is a long time coming, Ludwig is often tired and seems to be disinterested in his wife. Marie Antoinette was sent several letters from her mother Maria Theresia from Vienna asking her to finally become pregnant: On the one hand, this was intended to strengthen Marie Antoinette's position in French society and prevent the marriage from being annulled, and on the other hand, the relationship between Austria and France, which was endangered by the division of Poland be improved. At first repeatedly frustrated by her fruitless seductive skills, then finally bored of her marriage and tired of the strict court etiquette that degrades her to a passive puppet, Marie Antoinette soon isolates herself from the rest of society and gives herself entirely to luxurious idleness. On top of that, she refuses to talk to the Countess du Barry , the vulgar but official mistress of King Louis XV. to speak, which threatens to lead to a diplomatic conflict between France and Austria. Only at the admonition of the Austrian ambassador and her mother does she casually address an insignificant sentence to the countess, which can be understood as social recognition of the mistress.

After her brother Joseph II found out in a personal conversation with Ludwig that the Dauphin's previous marital abstinence was due to pubertal shyness and a lack of sexual education, he finally initiated him into the benefits of physical love, so that Marie-Antoinette was still a mother becomes. She finds a quieter life and seeks relaxation in her Petit Trianon Castle , which becomes her preferred place to stay. In the castle garden she owns a miniature village, the Hameau , where she can retreat with friends and enjoy the rural idyll. With the death of Louis XV. becomes her husband as Louis XVI. King of France and Navarre . Still too young for this office and influenced by bad advisors, he agreed to financially support the Americans in the fight against the British motherland. In this way he is burdening France with costs and debts which can only be met with difficulty by increasingly oppressive taxes.

Marie Antoinette is now queen. At a masked ball she meets the Swedish aristocrat and womanizer Hans Axel von Fersen and begins a love affair with him. However, she hardly notices that she is being criticized for her withdrawal from the public and that her opponents are spreading scandal stories about her. It was only later that she noticed the resistance of the lower social classes. The beginnings of the French Revolution are making themselves felt. One learns of the storming of the Bastille . An angry crowd gathers in front of Versailles. Marie Antoinette refuses to flee and stays with her husband. Finally, at dawn, the two have to leave the castle in the carriage. Marie Antoinette looks through the window of the carriage into the park, it seems to her that this is a farewell forever. The final frame of the film shows the queen's bedroom devastated by the angry people.

Cast and dubbing

role actor German speaker
Marie Antoinette Kirsten Dunst Marie Bierstedt
Louis XVI Jason Schwartzman Norman Matt
Comtesse de Noailles Judy Davis Liane Rudolph
Louis XV Rip Torn Hartmut Neugebauer
Duchess of Polignac Rose Byrne Maria Koschny
Madame du Barry Asia Argento Claudia Urbschat-Mingues
Aunt Victoire Molly Shannon Christin Marquitan
Aunt Sophie Shirley Henderson Dorette Hugo
Emperor Joseph Danny Huston Leon Boden
Maria Theresa Marianne Faithfull Regine Albrecht
Count von Fersen Jamie Dornan Alexander Doering
Duchess of Chartres Aurore Clement NN
Comte Vergennes Guillaume Gallienne NN
Comte de d'Artois Al Weaver Nico Mamone
Comte de Provence Sebastian Armesto Robin Kahnmeyer
Comtesse de Provence Clementine Poidatz Susanne Geier
Comtesse de la Londe Aleksia Landeau Silke Matthias
Duc Choiseul Jean-Christophe Bouvet Thomas Hailer
Duc Fortune Paul Fortune Erich Rauker
Princesse Lamballe Mary Nighy Julia Kaufmann
Raumont Tom Hardy Marcel Collé
Ambassador Mercy Steve Coogan Marcus Off
gardener Carlo Brandt Helmut Gauss

History of origin

Marie Antoinette was filmed on locations in France. At the locations included the Vaux-le-Vicomte , the Château de Versailles and the Domain of Marie-Antoinette at the recently reopened Petit Trianon , but also the Palais Garnier , the Paris Opera , the approximately 100 years after Marie Antoinette's time was built .

The role of Louis XV. Coppola allegedly offered Alain Delon ; However, the latter had harshly rejected her, arguing that an American director could not make a film about French history. The role was instead taken on by Rip Torn .

The Marie Antoinette biography of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was read by Coppola, but not used as a basis for the film. Coppola justified this with the fact that Zweig's book was too strict with Marie Antoinette. Rather it relies on Fraser which show a girl who located themselves at the wrong time, wrong place, though Marie Antoinette was itself sometimes described by well-meaning contemporaries as schemer, a separate policy has operated and about the downfall of promising finance minister Turgot was involved which of course would have made her person appear in a completely different light in the film.

KK Barrett , who was the set designer for Being John Malkovich and Coppola's previous film Lost in Translation , created the set in the Rococo style . The shoes were designed by the designer Manolo Blahnik . Coppola said she didn't want to make a historical film in the strict sense. For example, a bag of chips and chucks can be seen in the film (53:35 min).

reception

Kirsten Dunst at the presentation of the film in Cannes.

Marie Antoinette premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2006, where it screened in competition. At the previous press screening on the same day, the film met with restrained reactions, there were numerous boos. The first press reviews saw an elaborate costume drama in which Marie Antoinette acts like an eternally smiling party girl. In terms of style, there was a proximity to video clips , to which the music also contributed, which was to a small extent historical ( Jean-Philippe Rameau , played on original instruments by Les Arts florissants under William Christie ), but mainly modern (including Air , New Order) ). At the following press conference, director Coppola reacted abruptly, disappointed and offended. The participating actors Kirsten Dunst and Steve Coogan praised the film. Also present at the press conference were Jason Schwartzman , Aurore Clément , Marianne Faithfull , producer Ross Katz and costume designer Milena Canonero . Canonero said that Coppola did not want to create the Rococo world known from films or paintings, but wanted to provide a modern view - in accordance with the soundtrack.

Reviews

“Marie Antoinette, as Sofia Coppola shows her, is a pop queen: lustful, lavish, beautiful; at first glance a happy young woman who looks a little like the girlfriend of 'Spider-Man'. […] For a while one likes to watch the aristocratic instinctual life (not to be confused with Marie Antoinette's married life). […] But sooner or later (the film lasts just over two hours) one has seen enough of all the nicely filmed pomp and the vain fuss at court - and only waits for the revolution, dramaturgically and otherwise. "

- Martin Wolf

“'Marie Antoinette' is gorgeous cinema, elegiac and empathetic, powerful and beautiful. All voices who call it a simple pop company overlook the fact that this film, through its directing decisions, stretches the rope between then and now, between Versailles and Los Angeles and between politics and art. Sophia Coppola consistently refuses to deal with comprehensive storylines and conventional tension curves and thus formulates a requiem for a person with an externally determined youth all the more aptly. "

- Thomas Schlömer

“The Ancien Régime provides Coppola with the model for a beautiful to look at, but not necessarily trivial view of a modern upper class that has said goodbye to the rest of society. […] Marie Antoinette [has] nothing of the typical artificial yellow of the historical cinema. You won't see any putrid teeth here or any fellinian minor characters, there will be no farting or burping, the wigs fit like an A, and the parquet in the Palace of Versailles is so bright that you could eat from them. […] The Queen and her girls gang are excellent representatives of that scene of young heiresses, wives, ex-wives and it-bag wearers, to which - of course, as has already been written - Paris Hilton and Ivanka Trump, Nicole Richie or Jemima Khan, but in the end also Kirsten Dunst and Sofia Coppola belong. "

- Sabine Horst

“Coppola finds no vision for the worldly decadence of Versailles because it sticks to everyday luxury and brand categories. And while the consumption frenzy of the young queen first moves into the palace rooms with great vigor, we have an inkling that the madness of Versailles must have been more than sequences of high-pitched pumps and a pair of sneakers. More than cake works and petits fours. "

“This Marie Antoinette has many facets, and Coppola does not forcibly make her into a woman of today, but she shows her timeless humanity with a balanced tone of humor and compassion. That should be allowed, at the risk of getting the impression that it was a great wrong to send this woman to the scaffold. "

- Thomas Neuhauser

“Since this Coppola film is told rather tenaciously and is not stingy with redundancies, one waits with growing impatience for the dawn of the year 1789 (or for 1793, the events of which are assumed to be known) [...] It cannot be denied that this strange project also has some entertaining aspects to offer, for example at the level of the cast (Marianne Faithful, Steve Coogan), but none of these qualities contribute to a well-calculated representation of the historical or even to a new way of dealing with its aesthetic material. [...] Coppola, who is generally regarded as a great sensualist (can be recognized here by breath-misted window panes and royal fingers painting delicate gestures in the wind or in the water), has above all developed a variation on the theme of "poor rich girl" worked out, which is the counterpart to certain young fantasies, at least no less boastful and vain. [...] I haven't seen a more silly film for a long time. "

- Manfred Hermes : specifically 11/2006, p. 51.

Awards

At the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, Marie Antoinette ran in the competition, but could not win a prize. Marie Antoinette was awarded the National Education Prize by a jury of six teachers, two cinema experts and two film students led by Frédéric Mitterrand .

At the 2007 Academy Awards , Milena Canonero received the Oscar for Best Costume Design for her work on Marie Antoinette .

At the Gotham Awards 2006 Marie Antoinette was nominated for Best Picture , but could not prevail against Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson .

Book template for the film

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Marie Antoinette . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 840 K).
  2. Age rating for Marie Antoinette . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Marie Antoinette on synchronkartei.de , accessed on April 28, 2012
  4. Spiegel Online, May 4, 2006
  5. Filmspiegel ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmspiegel.de
  6. epd film 11/2006
  7. Die Zeit No. 45 of November 2, 2006
  8. Kino-News ( Memento of the original from May 29th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 27, 2006 on arte.tv @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv

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