(Making) Marie Antoinette

Featuring two films from mother & daughter powerhouse Eleanor and Sofia Coppola, (Making) Marie Antoinette is a limited film series offering two distinct perspectives of the same feature film.

Marie Antoinette (4k Remaster):

The third feature film from Oscar-winning writer-director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, 2003) transposes her fascination with the inner lives of young women to 18th century Versailles with this semi-biographical story of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France from 1774 to 1793.

Punctuated with anachronistic postpunk and new wave music, Coppola’s refreshing take on a centuries-old history brings the woes of the past into… sharp comparison with present-day concerns of girls, teens, and young women for a deeply felt and beautifully rendered cinematic achievement.

Making Marie Antoinette:

Follows filmmaker Eleanor Coppola’s behind-the-scenes documentation of her daughter Sofia Coppola directing the 2006 film Marie Antoinette, capturing the craftsmanship and challenges of being a young female director. French Revolution is on full display in this diary shot by her mother, filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, on the film’s set in Versailles in 2005.

From almost 80 hours of video, Eleanor began to assemble the footage during the pandemic lockdown, and Sofia helped finish editing it after Eleanor’s death in 2024. Narrated by Diane Lane, reciting Eleanor’s journals from the time, this is a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse that is both process-oriented and touchingly personal