Off with Their Heads!

The tease is out on the new film from Sophia Coppola, and apparently the French aren't all mad. Michèle Lorin, the president of the Marie-Antoinette Association in France, seems to think come this fall we'll take to the streets, crazed with "Marie-Antoinette mania." And thanks for that lovely image, Michèle. I'm hoping heads will roll.

London's The Independent threw together a little piece on it. You can read it in its entirety here.

The teaser trailer begins with 18th Century men on 18th Century horses in 18th Century France, and what to my wondering ears should sound, but the lovely clanging of four little 20th Century English musicians, known most commonly as Manchester's own New Order. The teaser plays out like a beautifully crafted Duran Duran video from 1986, perhaps 1987, and Kirsten Dunst looks, say it with me - ah, ah, ah, en Français - incredible, but something about this pairing strikes me: it was ok when Rob Reiner used The Great American Songbook to express love as he did in When Harry Met Sally... (and I mean, c'mon let's face it. He stole the idea from Woody Allen, right? The whole movie is just a slightly sunnier W.A. movie), but is it ok to do the reverse, use modern music to score a period piece cum Vangelis? Discuss.