let sophia eat brioche

did you see the trailer for sophia coppola's marie antoinette. for my readers who flunked european history, m.a. was the queen of france during the second half of the 18th century. she was beheaded at the age of 37, along with her husband king louis xvi, without trial. she spent her final four years captive in paris during the franco-prussian war after versaille was raided in 1789. she's famous for telling starving peasants "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," or, more or less, "let them eat cake." now, obviously, those francophiles will understand when i say the latter infamous phrase is not all that flippant and, furthermore, the attribution of that quotation to m.a. also is questionable. but whatever; she's bitchy royale.
as for the trailer: i think the juxtaposition of new order with cinematographer lance acord's images are both clever and instantly appealing. i'm not sure he's the ideal d.p. for an epic period film, but it doesn't look like coppola is going for the barry lyndon look ( that is, except for that corny kubrickesque zoom midway through the trailer). i like the boldness of casting of kirsten dunst and jason schwartzman as queen and king, and though they are neither in their mid-30s nor french, obviously, but dunst's spry seductiveness and naivete are believable within the context of these few images. the trailer reveals nothing of m.a.'s fate, namely, the early years of napolean bonaparte's reign of terror ... that has to be included in the film, no? officially interested.
FFT