Marie Antoinette ROCKS! : Nevermind the bollocks, here's Sofia Coppola!

I had a mind to write about Marie Antoinette at some point or the other in the women series, because I feel that she is one of the most wronged figures in World History. However this is something for the distant future, since there are so many other much more important women to cover.

Today I am addressing another major injustice, the one done to the film "Marie Antoinette" by Sofia Coppola.






Sofia Coppola is my favourite film director of the new generation. I agreed to watch "Lost in Translation" half-heartedly, mainly out of fanatical devotion to Bill Murray and it turned out to be probably the most innovative, romantic and dreamy film released in the past five years.

When I heard that Sony Pictures would not release "Marie Antoinette" to theaters in Greece due to bad reviews I was apoplectic!



Later I got the chance to see the movie on DVD and it was brilliant! Not a cinematic Masterpiece, not a Begman anatomy of the human soul but a brilliant movie nonetheless, a rollercoaster of wonderful costumes, fantastic colours and a fast-paced direction along the lines of modern disco and punk music, which by itself is a very bold, laudable and in the end VERY SUCCESSFUL artistic move.



I am writing all this because if this artistic experiment by a talented director is condemned by the critics to oblivion, then what should happen to all the total nonsense that is being shamelessly released as action or horror movies, like "Shoot'em Up" (starring, unfortunately for him, Clive Owen) that I spent last night trying to watch?

A pity.

Nevermind the idiots. Nevermind the bollocks. Go Sofia!!!



(along the lines of "Aphrodisiac" by Bow Wow Wow from the "Marie Antoinette" OST) :

Take an a-a-aphrodisiac, don't do no-no-nothing, just relax
Your ha-ha-heart goes piddle-pat, take an a-a-aphrodisiac

If you want to fall in love with somebody
Somebody that you're not in love with at all

With an a-a-a-aphrodisiac, your ha-ha-heart goes piddle-pat
Don't do nothing, just relax with an a-a-aphrodisiac

If you want to fall in love with somebody - hey
Somebody that you're not in love with at all
Exciting you, just make you love me too
Somebody that you're not in love with at all

I'm your a-a-a-aphrodisiac, don't do nothing, just relax
Gives you a a a heartattack, just take your clothes off, this is overjack

If you want to fall in love with somebody
Somebody that you're not in love with at all

Take an a-a-a-aphrodisiac, don't do no-no-nothing, just relax
Elephants is unagreed, wo-wo-wo-word to succeed!

A-a-aphrodisiac, gives you a a a heartattack
Don't do nothing, just relax, I'll be your aphrodisiac

Don't do nothing, just relax, with an a-a-aphrodisiac!!!