Opera Meets Film: How a Rameau Aria Illuminates Subtext in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’
Marie Antoinette managed to make both the palatine, French nobility, the bourgeoise and the working-class revile her before the end of her tumultuous reign as queen to the last king of the House of Bourbon. She has been since depicted as a foreign intruder who shamelessly feasted on the sumptuous trappings of aristocratic life with almost immoral gluttony. The common {…}