Sophia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette has fantastic visuals and excellent costuming. The mood and visual art is so entrancing and exciting from the very beginning of the film, I was hooked instantly. I could not get over the beautiful gowns that all the women wore. Everything was so historically accurate and brightly colored how could I not be enthralled? The story line may have been a bit hard to follow, except for the few comedic reliefs, but everything else was fascinating.
I thought it was brilliant how Coppola chose to use such visual aspects to tell the story. When everyone was happy and partying the colors were bright and everywhere. The rooms seemed to be lit in every corner. Even the clothes were eccentric and excitingly colored. But in the scene where we nonchalantly find out the youngest of Marie Antoinette's (Kirstin Dunst) children dies, the room is dark and so are the colors. You almost cannot tell what is going on. The clothing of course went from magnificent colors to black and dark depressing colors. Essentially from here on out the movie is in a dark state, because of all the hatred and revolution beginning to happen.
No comments:
Post a Comment