Marie Antoinette

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She did not want me to reproduce in a cinematic way the paintings of Marie Antoinette that you see at Versailles. She’s a perfectionist, and given she won an Oscar designing costumes for Stanley Kubrick, that’s not a huge surprise. Ross Katz, Marie Antoinette producer: I wanted to catch up with Sofia after the Oscars since you don’t really get to talk much during the ceremony.

I live in Dublin, Ireland and am the author of eleven novels, many of them Irish bestsellers, all of them translated into foreign languages, most of them also published in the US by St Martin’s Press. As casting came together, Coppola assembled a crack team of behind-the-scenes collaborators to bring the decadence of 18th-century France to life. If you asked me to design an American period film, I’d need to work with an American who could speak to the minutiae of their culture.We pieced sets together throughout France because we had to fill four days a week with other scenes. Eager to see a half-Habsburg heir to the French throne, Marie Antoinette's eldest brother, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (r. While the palace has hosted 225 different productions since 1896, Coppola was granted unprecedented access. Caroline Moorehead's richly novelistic biography sets Lucy and her dairies in their wider context, illuminating a remarkable period of history. Coppola: Lance understood that I wanted those scenes at the Trianon to have a really intimate, youthful feeling.

Now referred to as 'the Widow Capet', Marie Antoinette could not even bring herself to go out to the gardens for some fresh air, since doing so required passing by the king's empty chamber. Released 15 years ago this month, Marie Antoinette still feels like something of a revelation, and is regarded as a cultural touchstone for so many filmmakers and designers that it’s easy to forget just how polarising it was upon release.Because she was a foreigner and a woman, Marie Antoinette quickly became a favorite target of slanderous rumor. After Lost in Translation, I thought I could use that pass on Marie Antoinette because it was gonna be such an expensive film.