OFF WITH THEIR KEDS!

Went and saw Marie Antoinette on Monday, and i enjoyed it very much. Sophia Coppola mentioned that some inspiration for the movie came from the 1980's "New Romantic" music/clothing style... you know, the whole glam pirate thing that Adam and the Ants were doing... so, anachronisms in the movie are an intentional tool as opposed to mistakes. (IMDB.com lists "goofs", and mentions as a goof that there are a pair of Chuck Taylor shoes in a shoe shopping scene... aren't they smart enough to know that was INTENTIONAL?)

In the soundtrack are songs by The Cure, Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants, New Order, and Siouxsie and the Banshees (among other artists).

some of the plot gets a little slow near the end, but the plot isn't the point of the movie-- we ALL know that she and the king are killed in the end. Think of the movie as a moving painting. There are no special effects, no green screen, no CGI. It's about artistic camera angles, impossible fashions, long pastoral shots, wigs with birds and ships, sunrises.

So, i LIKED the shot with the pink Chuck Taylors.

Versailles is a huge, gaudy music box of a palace, and oh so very French. Marie almost had no choice but to become corrupt. She didn't stand a chance...