Making Marie Antoinette

i got teary-eyed.

George Carmi

Oh this was so tender and special. A love letter from Sofia to her mother in the form of a love letter from her mother to her. Very funny and warm but also very raw and sad. The whole film felt like a journal entry, as intended. Special film, special family. Also very…

Lady Dakota

might bump up to five but wow did this make me unexpectedly emo. i didn’t expect sofia to come out but the cinema roared. so so so so beautiful!

sumi

A tender, loving documentary that shows there’s no greater love on earth than a parent ever so proud of you. Not just your work, but the barriers you broke just to accomplish your dreams and raise the bar, even in an oppressive industry.  I can’t wait for Sofia to do this…

Rendy Jones

MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE pays loving tribute to Eleanor Coppola as both an observant storyteller and devoted mother, documenting her daughter’s making of “Marie Antoinette” through an intimate and revealing behind-the-scenes lens. For fans of Sofia Coppola’s film, this is an…

Matt Neglia

What a privilege it is to get to see yourself through your mother’s eyes in this way <3

meera

A lovely film about filmmaking, about mothers and daughters, about the loneliness of being a woman in a male-dominated industry, about the difficulties of realizing one’s vision. Coincidentally also a very funny Jason Schwartzman comedy.

Isaac Feldberg

I am an obvious mark, as I have been a big-time lover and a major defender of Marie Antoinette before it was cool. But this documentary, consisting solely of footage that Sofia Coppola's mother and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola shot on set, has something more to offer than just…

Brian Formo

LFF #16 - Making Marie Antoinette What would’ve already been a beautiful BTS doc watching Coppola try to wrangle this impossibly large production becomes 50x more personal with her mums voiceover. Call me a sucker, call me whatever you like: put a gentle older woman on…

Ben