To compliment Fr. Michael Morris's class "Art and Religion in the Modern Era" the Daughters of Mary will be hosting a Movie Night this upcoming Monday (2/11) to screen Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006). While the class's goal may be to gain insight into Revolutionary France, you are welcome to come and marvel at the pretty clothes, wax nostalgic to the post-punk soundtrack, enjoy Jason Schwartzman's unlikely performance as Louis XVI or figure out what the heck Entertainment Weekly was talking about when it referred to Coppola's Marie Antoinette as "a new breed of post-post-post feminist woman."
We will serve dinner at 5 and start the movie at 6 in the Galleria and Classroom 1 at the DSPT. All are welcome. We will accept donations to go toward our continuing goal of a statue of Mary for our chapel, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. (This isn't Versailles after all.)
Hope to see you there!
Regina
And for those of us who enjoy some controversy with our movies: from http://bigscreenlittlescreen.net/2006/10/20/marie-antoinette-a-quotational-reference/
The swooning apologists
"To say that this movie is historically irresponsible or politically suspect is both to state the obvious and to miss the point…a thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song. What to do for pleasure? Go see this movie, for starters" - The New York Times
"You get a clever, visually gorgeous theme that's both emblematic of an unfathomable life and somehow weirdly familiar…a startlingly original and beautiful pop reverie that comes very close to being transcendent. - Los Angeles Times
"The work of a mature filmmaker who has identified and developed a new cinematic vocabulary to describe a new breed of post-post-post-feminist woman. And that contemporary creature is also of the artist's own invention." - Entertainment Weekly
The frothing dissenters
"It is not enough to merely hate Marie-Antoinette. One needs to organize against it, storm its gates, demand that certain parties lose their heads." - Hollywood Elsewhere
"Historians can't say for certain if Marie…actually said "Let them eat cake.'…I kept picturing Sofia Coppola offering up a big plate of icing — not even cake — for audiences: Pink, creamy costumes and music and sumptuous visuals with nothing under it to give the sugar-shock-esque, immediate buzz of the movie any real weight." - Cinematical
"Like licorice, Marie Antoinette is a confection you either love or hate, and both affects seem tied to your feeling about the director herself and her apparent identification with Louis XVI's bride. For my part, I can definitely say that I love licorice and hate Marie Antoinette. But I'm still wrestling with the enigma of Sofia Coppola." - Slate
