According to Sophia Coppola the director of the film, MA was both booed and cheered at Cannes. Apparently those most upset were the French themselves who were expecting a biopic, faithful to Antonia Fraser's biography and were appalled at the casting, especially with everyone keeping their own accents. Marie Antoinette with a California Valley Girl accent!! Quelle Horrour!! Plus the French are still split in their opinions on Marie Antoinette.
I thought it was great fun and more open that it wasn't historically correct in order to get its point across, than say, the 1938 Marie Antoinette, starring Norma Shearer, that took great pains in pushing how much behind the scenes work was done to make everything historically correct, but looks like a 1930's Ziegfield Follies-inspired musical. I'll buy the DVD when it comes out for the costuming on this MA, alone. And there is sure to be an "extra" on the costumes in in. Cindy Abel _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
