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Rather than reduce the queen to a sentence she never actually said-“Let them eat cake”-Coppola wanted to show Marie Antoinette as she was: a young woman never taught to consider life outside the gilded gates of Versailles. There would be no beheadings in her script-nor much to do with the French Revolution at all. “Above all, I have attempted to tell Marie Antoinette’s dramatic story without anticipating its terrible ending.”Ĭoppola wanted to do the same with a film. “The elegiac should have its place as well as the tragic, flowers and music as well as revolution,” Lady Antonia wrote in her author’s note. Of all the books Coppola read about the doomed teen queen, she considered Lady Antonia’s to be “the best one… full of life, not a dry historical drama.” Unlike other portraits, which drew her as an overindulgent harpy who deserved to lose her head, Marie Antoinette: The Journey approached its subject with a radical sense of empathy.

She had optioned the film rights to the esteemed British historian’s best-selling biography, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. Toasting the esteemed director at the Tribeca Film Festival event hosted by Charles Finch and Dean & Deluca owner Sorapoj Techakraisri were Julian Schnabel and daughter Lola, Rupert Friend, Matthew Modine, Julie Taymor, Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson, Glenda Bailey, Sally Singer and Punch Hutton.Near the start of 2001, Sofia Coppola wrote to Lady Antonia Fraser on a piece of personalized, pale-blue stationery. “The Godfather” legend Francis told us on Wednesday, at a dinner in his honor at Soho’s Giorgione, that Anton gave Sofia tips on “tempi” - retaining the original tempo of Verdi’s work, since modern opera tends to speed things up to add “zing.” Sofia’s “La Traviata” will have its black-tie debut May 22 at the Teatro dell’Opera with costumes by Valentino and production design by “The Dark Knight” whiz Nathan Crowley. “He stopped by one afternoon to see it,” Sofia’s five-time Oscar-winning dad Francis Ford Coppola told us of Anton, his paternal uncle, who debuted with the New York City Opera in 1965. Sofia Coppola will make her debut as an opera director next month in Rome, and we hear she’s received some tips from one of her many talented family members - 99-year-old conductor Anton Coppola.

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