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.
Director Ruben Östlund uses dark humor to explore parental expectations and obligations after a crisis reveals a failure of nerve, and delivers a comedy with a dramatic foundation that leaves audiences with issues to chew over.
Lynch transformed the pilot of a TV show into a neo-noir with a weird, mystical logic that, in its unique Lynchian way, makes a twisted emotional sense.
