Mubi has acquired worldwide rights for Eleanor Coppola’s Making Marie Antoinette, going behind-the-scenes of daughter Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning period drama.
Produced by Sofia Coppola, it gives exclusive insight into the making of Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst as the doomed French queen.
Shot in 2005 and Sofia Coppola’s third feature film, Marie Antoinette was the first ever production granted permission to shoot in France’s Palace of Versailles. Eleanor Coppola accompanied her daughter on set and shot about eighty hours of footage, focusing on her journey of making the film.
This year, to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of Marie Antoinette, and to fulfil her mother’s wishes, Coppola edited the unseen footage. The resulting work shows the craftsmanship that went into the film, legendary costume designer Milena Canonero at work and what it was like to be a young female director at that time.
The footage was edited by Aaron Matthews with input from Eleanor’s good friends Davia Nelson and Liz Bird.
It is produced by Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani, Rachel Dengiz, Youree Henley, and Sofia Coppola, with the work was financed by Mieli and Gianani’s Rome-based Mediawan company Our Films, Mediawan Rights and Entourage Pictures.
Oscar nominated actress Diane Lane voices Eleanor Coppola, reading passages from her journals in which she discusses her experiences on set and reflects on her relationship with her daughter.
“My mother and I started going through her footage during lockdown. It was always her wish to make what she shot into a feature length documentary. She was on set as a filmmaker and also my mother, so I found it so moving to go back through the material and to see our shoot through her eyes,” said Sofia Coppola, thanking Mieli for his part in the making this wish come true.
“Sofia is one of the defining filmmakers of her generation, with a voice and sensibility entirely her own. Marie Antoinette was bold, beautiful, irreverent and hugely influential, and to revisit it now through Eleanor Coppola’s eyes, as both a filmmaker and a mother, is incredibly moving. We are proud to bring this intimate and remarkable portrait to audiences around the world,” said Mubi founder and CEO Efe Cakarel.
MUBI will announce release plans in the near future. Coppola is represented by Bart Walker at Gersh.
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