This film is a biopic, and if anything, Sofia Coppola wanted to make the viewer question what is the convention on that basis. Marie Antoinette's honey-like ambiance is mainlined through Kirsten Dunst's acting proficiency, but the effervescence and flamboyance of the surroundings is all Coppola's glimmering vision. The garish landscapes, the pedantic aristocrats, the gnawing ennui of the main character all come in a brilliant conjunction that gives a deer-in-the-headlights portrayal of what was indeed an irrepressible personality. What's so great about Coppola's aforementioned work is how the unconventionalism is streamlined by the dissidence from the drab pieces of biographical films to date that pose a case of despondency in their whereabouts.
