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Mubi has acquired world authorities to Making Marie Antoinette directed by nan precocious Eleanor Coppola.
Making Marie Antoinette is a down nan scenes look astatine Sofia Coppola‘s Oscar winning 2006 movie Marie Antoinette, and was changeable by Eleanor Coppola. The documentary was produced by Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani, Rachel Dengiz, Youree Henley, and Sofia Coppola; and financed by Mieli and Gianani’s Our Films arsenic good arsenic Mediwan Rights and Entourage Pictures.
In 2005, Oscar victor Sofia Coppola made her 3rd characteristic film, Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman, astatine nan Palace of Versailles, which was nan first characteristic accumulation ever to person been granted support to sprout astatine nan humanities property. Eleanor Coppola accompanied her girl connected nan group and changeable astir 80 hours of behind-the-scenes footage. As a documentarian, Eleanor Coppola was known for chronicling her hubby Francis Ford Coppola’s myriad challenges successful making his 2x Oscar winning 1979 Vietnam War pic Apocalypse Now in nan 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.
This year, to people nan 20th day of nan merchandise of Marie Antoinette, and to fulfill her mother’s wishes, Sofia Coppola edited nan unseen footage captured by her mother. In addition, nan footage was edited by Aaron Matthews pinch input from Eleanor’s bully friends Davia Nelson and Liz Bird.
In nan film, Eleanor Coppola is voiced by Oscar nominee Diane Lane (who starred successful Eleanor Coppola’s movie Paris Can Wait as good arsenic Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders and Cotton Club), who sounds passages from Eleanor’s journals successful which she discusses her experiences connected group and reflects connected her narration pinch her daughter. Eleanor Coppola passed connected April 12, 2024 astatine nan property of 87.
Efe Cakarel, MUBI’s Founder and CEO said: “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. We are proud to bring this friendly and singular image to audiences astir nan world.”
Sofia Coppola said, “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. I’m truthful grateful to Lorenzo and Our Films for helping maine put this together, and couldn’t beryllium happier that Efe and Mubi are going to beryllium releasing it.”
Our Films’ Lorenzo Mieli said, “Eleanor Coppola is simply a masterful documentarian, arsenic evidenced by Hearts of Darkness. I consciousness honored to person been capable to thief bring this documentary to life, and nan mother girl narration gives peculiar extent to nan film. Like Our Films, Mubi is each astir filmmakers, truthful this feels for illustration a very bully spot for a very typical film.”
Mubi will denote merchandise plans successful nan adjacent future. Coppola is represented by Gersh.
