Kevin Ng says you must watch Marie Antoinette

Sofia Coppola‘s cult classic Marie Antoinette is best known for blending a whimsically baroque visuals with a post-punk score.

It’s especially effective, then, to hear the haunting simplicity of Rameau‘s ‘Tristes apprets’ at a key moment in the movie. Kirsten Dunst‘s expression speaks volumes without much movement at all, and French soprano Agnès Mellon, an early member of William Christie‘s Les Arts Florissants, sounds immaculate.

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