unst takes the title role in writer-director Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette," re-introducing the world to the beheaded queen that history has painted as a spoiled girl whose extravagance helped ignite the French Revolution. Famously, when she was told the peasants were starving for lack of bread, she dismissed the masses by saying "Let them eat cake!" A great sound bite, except that the real Marie Antoinette never said it.

While the film is based on Antonia Fraser's biography "Marie Antoinette: The Journey," Coppola's Antoinette is not a ruthless hedonist ignoring the misery of the masses, but a lost teen who is both giggly and bewildered as she becomes the 14 year-old bride of a French monarch she’s never met. When she is shipped to France to marry 15-year-old Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), she is stripped of all her clothes and possessions - including her beloved pooch as the Comtesse de Noailles (Judy Davis) tells her "You can have as many French dogs as you like."

Once installed in Versailles, Marie must adjust to the rigid traditions of the French court. She is the subject of sneering and backbiting as her new in-laws regard her as somewhat of a low life, and her husband Louis (a badly cast Jason Schwartzman) is an introvert who rarely makes eye contact.

The marriage to Louis creates the central relationship of the movie. When Louis is crowned, she is just 19, so she manages to balance partying with having children, unaware that France is shifting and the mob is closing in. And so the poor rich queen indulges in everything, buying expensive clothes, drinking too much champagne and partying in high style.