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The Film File
In May of this year, word came through of an unruly mob in France. "Did you hear what happened?" a friend asked me. "Marie Antoinette got heckled. Absolutely slaughtered." This was news? The last time I checked, she got heckled from the neck up more than two hundred years ago. After a while, the confusion lifted. We were talking about the Cannes Film Festival, where Sofia Coppola's film about the life of the late Queen, starring Kirsten Dunst, had been met with a trumpet blast of boos. Needless to say, my desire to watch the movie was doubled at a stroke. Anything that rattles the ashtrays of French film critics has got to ...