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Mubi has acquired worldwide authorities for Eleanor Coppola’s Making Marie Antoinette, going behind-the-scenes of girl Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning play drama.
Produced by Sofia Coppola, it gives exclusive penetration into nan making of nan director’s 2006 movie Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst arsenic nan doomed French queen.
Shot successful 2005 and Sofia Coppola’s 3rd characteristic film, Marie Antoinette was nan first ever accumulation granted support to sprout successful France’s Palace of Versailles. Eleanor Coppola accompanied her girl connected group and changeable astir eighty hours of footage, focusing connected her travel of making nan film.
This year, to people nan 20th day of nan merchandise of Marie Antoinette, and to fulfil her mother’s wishes, Coppola edited nan unseen footage. The resulting activity shows nan craftsmanship that went into nan film, legendary costume designer Milena Canonero astatine activity and what it was for illustration to beryllium a young female head astatine that time.
The footage was edited by Aaron Matthews pinch input from Eleanor’s bully friends Davia Nelson and Liz Bird.
It is produced by Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani, Rachel Dengiz, Youree Henley, and Sofia Coppola, pinch nan activity financed by Mieli and Gianani’s Rome-based Mediawan institution Our Films, Mediawan Rights and Entourage Pictures.
Oscar nominated character Diane Lane voices Eleanor Coppola, reference passages from her journals successful which she discusses her experiences connected group and reflects connected her narration pinch her daughter.
“My mother and I started going done her footage during lockdown. It was ever her wish to make what she changeable into a characteristic magnitude documentary. She was connected group arsenic a filmmaker and besides my mother, truthful I recovered it truthful moving to spell backmost done nan worldly and to spot our sprout done her eyes,” said Sofia Coppola, thanking Mieli for his portion successful nan making this wish travel true.
“Sofia is 1 of nan defining filmmakers of her generation, pinch a sound and sensibility wholly her own. Marie Antoinette was bold, beautiful, irreverent and hugely influential, and to revisit it now done Eleanor Coppola’s eyes, arsenic some a filmmaker and a mother, is incredibly moving,” said Mubi laminitis and CEO Efe Cakarel.
MUBI will denote merchandise plans successful nan adjacent future. Coppola is represented by Bart Walker astatine Gersh.
