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Hold the Revision: Marie Antoinette (1938)

Hold the Revision: Marie Antoinette (1938)

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Nov 23, 2006
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Certain cultural moments leave the Siren scratching her head, and the greeting accorded Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is one. Not because the Siren dislikes the movie--she hasn't seen it and isn't enough of a Sofia fan to drop the newborn and rush out to remedy that--but because all the critics keep telling her it's based on a "revisionist" view of t…

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