Kirsten Dunst is the teenage Austrian princess in the court of King Louis XVI in Sofia Coppola’s portrait of the decadent, indifferent monarchy that toppled in the French Revolution.
The strange but true story of the creation of the first female comic book superhero delves into early feminism and a polyamorous relationship in the close-minded culture of pre-World War II America .
Whether or not Youseff Chahine’s autobiographical ‘Alexandria’ trilogy are the greatest films of his career, they are in many ways his crowning achievement: his love letter to the cinema he loved so much.
