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Article: The voice of Marianne faithfull; On Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.(Critical essay)
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- January 1, 2008
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Walking around the halls of Versailles, and passing from her grand
public bedroom into her small private apartments, surrounded by her
fabrics and trinkets, I could imagine the girl ... Being there you can
feel how lost they must have been, so isolated from any kind of
reality outside their gates. And I tried to imagine her being there,
then. A gold-plated, Versailles hangover of the memory of a lost girl,
leaving childhood behind, to the final dignity of a woman ...
--Sofia Coppola (1)
Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola
Jean-Luc Godard, while professing his admiration for The Apple (1998) directed by the then 17 year-old Samira ...