Then again, maybe I'm half-right and Ebert is half-right. Although I'm writing out of the side of my neck considering that I haven't even seen it. (There are just so many other good movies this year).

He writes:
"Ten things that occurred to me while watching 'Marie Antoinette.'"

So, these are things he thought of while viewing the film if you read between the lines. In other words, there's so little happening that he had much of his review already written before the film, which runs just over two hours, had concluded.

I saw the movie maybe 40 minutes ago.

What Sofia does best is photographing characters caught in a moment of either pure exhilaration or boredom. The colors, haziness and soundtrack to scenes such as these are usually right-on. I'm thinking of the prom scene in The Virgin Suicides scored to Styx's Come Sail Away + Bill and Scarlett's final scene together in Lost in Translation scored to Jesus & Mary Chain's Just Like Honey + The scene in VS when one of the boys smells one of the girls' lipstick (god I totally would have done that myself). There's a definite dreaminess, uniqueness and movie-ness about 'em. But when it comes to her directing typical talking head scenes, she's not as peculiar. Whenever the characters in MA talk about important matters, the actors read their lines as if they were reading them for the first time - but those scenes are beside the point, anyway, right? What the movie is really about is a young woman just being the girliest girl she can be. I mean, I'm surprised that there are straight guys who dig this. This is a movie that loves to just ogle at extravagant set-pieces and costumes + food so colorful they might be artificial + furry, cute small animals. How could I fall in love with this? I mean, admittedly I'm not the manliest guy (I saw the movie because I like Sofia's style), but I can't say that I share Antoinette's fondness for shoe-shopping, styling hair, etc. But I'm not criticizing the movie. I'm just saying that I'm not its target audience.

I liked it.

I thought it is one of the best movies out there now. At least on the top.

i didn't know marie antoinette was a vampire.

http://thesuperficial.com/2006/09/ki...to_see_an.html

i don't think the music is supposed to be "edgy", instead i think coppola just put in the soundtrack things she knows/likes.there's no way no order,gang of four,the strokes,cure could be considered edgy nowadays.it's just a "contrast" thing in my opinion,but not really rooted in an attempt to look "avantgarde" or wathevaaaa.

I think she put the songs in order to have a modern twist to the whole movie.

yeah, a modern twist, probably, but not a "huh,i am so hype i know all the hottest bands around" thing. but i have not seen the movie yet,so maybe i't just an impression.