''Of course the French are going to boo!'' exclaims Kirsten Dunst, with much joie de vivre. She plays a very elusive Marie Antoinette in the colorful new biopic by Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola, and right now Dunst, who also stars in the Marie-inspired portfolio of photos in the following screens, is talking about some of the raspberries the film received during its much-talked-about first screening at the Cannes film festival this May.
That's actually an odd story, an instantly infamous bit of Cannes movie history. When the end credits rolled at Marie Antoinette's press screening at the world's biggest film fest, a few people booed. When somebody asked director Sofia Coppola about it at the press conference afterward, she seemed blindsided by the question, and thereafter her Marie has been known in some movie-savvy circles primarily as ''the movie that got booed at Cannes.'' (There's one every year.)
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