[lbo-talk] Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette: Not even cake?

[Colin Brace]

[Not this time from the pen of David Walsh but from Emanuele
Saccarelli. Here is a tasty crumb:]

[...

The cool detachment that in Lost in Translation could have been
mistaken for a veil meant to conceal profound, or at least human
feelings, is revealed here instead to be Coppola's only conscious
artistic program. The mere surface, if not the superficiality of art,
its self-referential and self-sufficient quality are turned into a
virtue. It is impossible not to notice just how studiously vacuous the
film is, how the costumes, and the cakes, and the sweets, and the
architecture of Versailles are no mere background to the story. They
are the story.

[...]

full: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/mari-n24.shtml

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  Colin Brace

  Amsterdam