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...weather, but in the selection of films and the response of the 4,000 journalists here. The films on display in the first week had their partisans and their detractors, without provoking much acrimonious dispute. But reviewers do love to dispute each other, and the world premiere of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette gave us the chance finally to argue over a movie...
...suggestion was that the French took Coppola's gaily revisionist view of 18th century history as an insult to their civic pride. But the French critics were mostly supporters of the film. Michel Ciment, the doyen of Positif magazine, and a member of a jury of critics convened by the daily Cannes edition of Screen International, gave Marie Antoinette four palms, the highest rating. The critic for Les Echoes called it "a superb film," and the one for Le Figaro said it was "prettily filmed." The French website Romandie.com pegged the Coppola movie, along with Pedro Almod...
...Coppola was told of the boos at the post-screening press conference, where she was flanked by stars Kirsten Dunst Marie) and Jason Schwartzman (Louis XVI) - and, seated just off to the side, her father Francis Coppola. She acknowledged that she was disappointed by the news, but added, in true trouper form, "It's better to get a reaction, it's better than a mediocre response. Hopefully some people will enjoy it. I think it's not for everybody." One of the journalists told her that some critics applauded at the end of the film...
...dismiss the report that the film, which ends before the beheading of the Queen, resulted in the lynching of its director. Indeed, the boos may have helped Coppola's film, creating a controversy that demanded the taking of sides. Nothing stirs impassioned defense like an attack, real or perceived. If the film wins a big prize here at Cannes, Coppola can thank the naysayers. (Some people thought Coppola took the criticism to heart when she was a no-show at Thursday's official Festival dinner in her honor. Truth is, she'd got an offer she couldn't refuse...
...Just after midnight tonight, as thousands of the film faithful waited to trudge up the red carpet for a 12:15 feature, a giant BOOM punctured the clear night air. Everyone understood its import. No, not a terrorist device; not even the soundburst of boos that greeted Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette in its world premiere here Wednesday. The noise heralded a 10-minute display of fireworks over the beach, its multicolor spume spraying the Palais' top balcony...