Review of Marie Antoinette (2006) by Chads. — 21 Oct 2006
Somewhere in England, in a pub, Midge Ure, with beery breath, blurts out to anybody who's listening, "This bloody movie begins in "Vienna, and I wrote a song called "Vienna"! Fancy that! It would've been f****n perfect, in my humble opinion, had it accompanied Marie's journey to Versailles! I'm from the eighties, too, you know! And I need the money, goddamnit!" Sorry.
Crazy Ultravox fan talking here. No love for the London-based synth-band, but Adam Ant, of all people, has the unique distinction of having his music accompany a silent film classic(Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"), and a period-piece biopic about a queen with too much free time.
"Marie Antoinette" bears a faint similarity to Aleksandr Sokurov's "Russian Ark", in which your entertainment is derived mainly from the historical importance of the film's location.
Some of the casting is disastrous. With the right actors, the repetitious scenes of court life wouldn't seem quite as tedious.
This review of Marie Antoinette (2006) was written by Chads. on 21 Oct 2006.
Marie Antoinette has generally received positive reviews.
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