Some Boys Don't Like Marie Antoinette, Some Girls Like Leo

I always said that Marie Antoinette was a chick flick. Some boys just don't get what girls get out of shopping. But I did find it significant that given all her choices last Friday night, 17-year-old Nora chose The Departed. That was first on her list. And she and her friends came out of it besotted with Leo. Which they've been since Titanic, but now he's a 31-year-old adult man. And could well earn an Oscar nom for The Departed. Martin Scorsese vs. Sofia Coppola? Leo and Matt and Jack and Mark vs. Kirsten and Jason? No contest, even for a girl who, trust me, LOVES shopping. On the other hand, my friend Cheryl the interior designer had orgasms watching Marie Antoinette. She was blissed out for days thinking about the delicate bead work on those evening gowns.

Comments

[Sergio]

The biggest shock was that I REALLY liked this film. It had two things going against it for me: 1) it was blatant chick flick and 2) it was a blatant chick flick directed by Sofia Coppola, who I consider one of the most overrated filmmakers today. (The effort to keep from drifting off while watching Lost In Translation or The Virgin Suicides was a Herculean effort for me)

But, amazingly somehow this film really worked for me and she pulls off extraordinarly well one of the most difficult tricks for a filmmaker, making a film about superficially and boredom consistantly interesting

[Christian Johnson]

I did think it was odd that Marie Antoinette felt like a remake of Sophia's short film Lick the Star.

[T. H. Unfassung]

Way to go Nora. “The Departed” is in the league of must see movie events. Saturday night, I ran into a friend on her way to Mann Grauman’s Chinese to see it with her date; it’s a DATE MOVIE. I predict a similar situation for “Pan’s Labrynth.”

[Fugsmaks]

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.-- Polish proverb