Marie-Antoinette is the Directorial follow-up by Sofia Coppola to Lost in Translation, and the trailer is now online and it’s quite, quite bizarre.
Unashamedly I caught this through Twitch again, and it’s available on direct download. Quicktime, 20.3Mb trailer.
What do you think. I have to say in the opening seconds I was totally stunned. Not by anything other than the choice of music. Slowly though, I grew to appreciate it, and I do think it looks good. Visually it does look great. Champagne flowing, ships battling, fireworks, Kirsten Dunst naked. Most of that is wow.
Todd points out, quite rightly so, that there are also some amazingly odd casting choices in the movie.
Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI? Sure, they’re cousins and all, and the guy’s a lot of fun, but Schwartzman as a French king? And then they announced British comedian Steve Coogan in the cast as well and my head just exploded. And check the rest of the cast … Rip Torn? Asia Argento? Marianne Faithful? Molly Shannon?
This whole experience looks to be a particularly strange one. Thoughts?
