Marie Antoinette, The Valley Girl

Interesting review of Marie Antoinette today in the Sunday Times: "Coppola’s film also transposes “in-your-face” 21st-century English colloquialisms, broad American accents and a bold use of rock and pop music into the lush world of 18th- century Versailles. The film is determinedly anachronistic. The royals are seen smoking little reed pipes and do so as if they are using modern-day spliffs. They are also seen downing huge quantities of champagne, although historians maintain that the drink was not in vogue at the French court in the 1770s." More >>>