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In 2006, Sofia Coppola premiered “Marie Antoinette” at Cannes… and the audience booed. Critics missed the point entirely, calling it shallow and self-indulgent. Worst of all, it wasn’t historically accurate.

Twenty years on, “Marie Antoinette” endures as one of the most misunderstood American films of the 2000s. It lives as a radical act of anachronistic storytelling, wielding its New Wave soundtrack and punk-rock pastel palette as a direct line into the interior life of a teenager trapped inside a gilded cage.

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