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Marie Antoinette

by Directed by Sofia Coppola (2006)

Sofia Coppola's 2006 film with Kirsten Dunst, adapted from Antonia Fraser's biography and shot on location at Versailles.

Marie Antoinette 2h 03m

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Sofia Coppola's 2006 film is adapted directly from Antonia Fraser's biography (the audiobook and ebook in this library), with Kirsten Dunst as the queen. It was shot on location at the Palace of Versailles, so much of what fills the screen is exactly what we'll walk through on Day 3.

The style is deliberately modern, a young-queen's-eye view with a pop soundtrack rather than a stuffy costume drama, but the arc is faithful to Fraser's book: a teenage Austrian archduchess married into a court that distrusted her, the isolation and excess of Versailles, and the slow slide toward revolution.

A painless way to put faces and rooms to the history before the trip. Pairs naturally with a walk through Versailles and the Rise and Fall of Versailles documentary.