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Sofia Coppola brings a candy-colored palette, a dreamy synth-pop soundtrack, and Converse high-tops to eighteenth-century Versailles for this exuberantly subversive, extravagantly stylized anti-biopic of one of history’s most infamous (and perhaps misunderstood) figures. Kirsten Dunst portrays Marie Antoinette as a rebellious teenage princess, who marries the awkward young dauphin of France (Jason Schwartzman), soon to be crowned King Louis XVI. Feeling isolated in a royal court rife with scandal and intrigue, Marie Antoinette defies both royalty and commoner by living like a rock star—which can work for only so long.


DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Sofia Coppola and director of photography Lance Acord, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
New interview with Coppola
New selected-scene commentary featuring actor Kirsten Dunst
New program featuring interviews with Acord, production designer KK Barrett, and costume designer Milena Canonero
Parody short featuring Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI
Deleted scenes
Music video for Phoenix’s “Run Run Run”
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Claire Marie Healy

New cover by Tori Huynh

I live in France and bought day one the Pathé box set; the transfer of Marie Antoinette is nice but I can't wait to see a 4K transfer supervised by Lance Acord (that implied that perhaps we will have one day a Criterion 4K of Lost In Translation)

"I don't know what do to it myself" was also directed by Sofia Coppola; I remember its hypnotic power (the pole dance perhaps)

Odd that Eleanor Coppola's making-of documentary from previous releases won't be on there.

That’s been expanded to feature-length and is being theatrically released by Mubi around when this is coming out, maybe they’ll do their own disc release of it too.

The original version is also on the Hearts of Darkness releases that include a number of her other works.

Too bad my Pathé box set with "Marie Antoinette" does not play anymore through the second layer; no more chapter 9 and further. Another QOL pressing I suppose.
But it still works on another Blu-Ray player... just waiting for the Criterion UHD/4K transfer. The Pathé transfer is just okay (I was so happy at the time but I have to admit that).

First time I didn't see much than 7 minutes of the movies because they confiscate the little puppy "Mobst" or whatever was his name to Marie Antoinette. That was unbearable for me. I had to stop the movie. (I love this scene though).
Then someone told me : "no no no you can watch it, they are talking about "Mobst" coming back at the 30 minutes of the movie, watch it, you can bare it."
Okay, so I finally watched it.
Always loved the music, Kirsten Dunst is so lovely , Jason is as great as in the Wes Anderson movies (sic transit gloria), the cinematography is superb (can't wait for Lost In Translation 4K Criterion). Never understood the controversy in France about this movie. This was "Lost in Versailles" après tout.


There is a making of on the Pathé Blu-RAy - that's a promo making of? Not the documentary you are talking about.
There is also Sofia Coppola's short movie "Lick The Stars".
Well, Stéphane Bern, we can skip (we even had Fadèle Amara in the Criterion collection (minister under N.Sarkozy's reign) on the bonus of Agnès Varda's "Le Bonheur")

I have rewatched the Pathé Blu-Ray (transfer was nice when I discovered it, but now it looks kind of average so my expectations of the new 4K restoration are high because the photography is magnificent (I also hope that Lost In Translation will one day come through Criterion) :

the last 3/4 part of the movie reminds me the poignant part of The New World; there is this same kind of poignant melancholy; and the scenes with Marie Antoinette at the Trianon with her little girl watching flowersl, almost seem to announce Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" - something which I never had in mind before (I hope that The New World (the extended cut) and The Tree of Life (extended cut) will see the light of the day on UHD)
The "Barry Lyndon" shots on the Versailles never ending stairs are magnificent.
Can't wait to see a 4K copy.