{movie} marie antoinette (2006)

Sofia Coppola directs this stylized portrait of Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst), the naive Austrian princess who married Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman) to become queen of France at age 19. The film explores the young queen's luxurious yet terribly confining lifestyle and illustrates how Marie Antoinette's youthful indiscretion and frivolity were not only her release, but ultimately, her very undoing. A Golden Palm nominee at Cannes, the film also took Oscar honors for costume design.

ireviewnetflix.com rating: *** This was much better than I thought it was going to be. Kirsten Dunst is wonderful and the movie is beautifully shot. I didn't really know that much about Marie Antoinette aside from the basics, but this movie certainly made me want to spend some time on Wikipedia to learn more.