Release Date: May 24, 2006

I’m just a girl

A movie definitely ahead of its time. It’s not a period piece or a historical biopic. It’s just a slice of life, slow-paced dramedy that makes you feel like you ARE Marie Antoinette.

You feel for her when she gets carted off to marry a boy she’d never met. And when they TAKE HER DOG. (NO MOPS NOOOO) Or when she stood butt ass naked in front of her in-laws as they hazed her.

But then you hate her when she becomes a gluttonous sloth. Or when she joins the mean girls to bully du Barry. And ESPECIALLY when she starts frolicking in the field, cottage-coring so hard. Look at me, I know how to poverty. Don’t they see me reading Rousseau??

I think Sofia wanted us to see Marie in ourselves. We’re all just trying out here—third world countries be damned. Maybe we’re all Maries, tone deaf-ed by our own privilege, refusing to believe (or maybe completely unaware of) the things happening in our world. Maybe she wanted us to empathize with herself—a nepo baby ridiculed for anything and everything, even though she’s just.. trying. Whatever Sofia’s goal was, the ultimate standout was Ms. Kirsten herself. This movie couldn’t exist without her. She made Marie feel shockingly relatable.

Marie laughs with her friends. And cries when they leave. She loves when people adore her. And gets insecure when they shame her. (The contrasting theater scenes were HARSH) Kirsten made us believe that Marie was all of us.

You don’t go into a “Marie Antoinette” movie and not expect her to get beheaded by the end. But I didn’t hate it. Marie was.. just a girl trying her best.

★★★★☆