News Summary

• Making Marie Antoinette might appear, at first glance, to be a very expensive DVD extra from 20 years ago, when Sofia Coppola ’s period extravaganza was first released.
• But this gentle but insightful film by her mother Eleanor percolates with a very modern relevance.
• Although she died in 2024, four years after starting it and two years before the finished cut, Eleanor made copious notes on the project, candidly revealing her insecurities about being a woman with a movie camera.