- Museum
Storyworld
Multiple dates
Country
United States, France
Year
2006
Language
English spoken, Dutch subtitles
Director
Sofia Coppola
Duration
123 min
Visually breathtaking film by Sofia Coppola about Marie Antoinette, who at 14 is married off to the French crown prince Louis XVI.
As the French Ancien Régime’s demise approaches, Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as a decadent pop-rock teenager, played by Kirsten Dunst, playfully searching for her identity while wandering through the excessive lavishness and elegant splendour of the court. Sofia Coppola depicts the emptiness and superficiality of the young aristocrat’s life, distracted from the harsh realities of social upheaval in France on the eve of the Revolution. This, however, is done with great sophistication, excitement, style and trend, wrapped in a cinematic ball of festivity and elegance.
With introduction
With introduction by Anna Doyle about elegance.
Cinematic Beauty
“Beauty alone makes the whole world happy, and each and every being forgets its limitations while under its spell,” the poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller claimed. Cinema is particularly well-suited for delightful encounters with beauty. During the Cinematic Beauty film program we watch seven films, with an introduction, each of which sheds a different light on beauty. In collaboration with the University of Groningen.
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