Satin shoes, stacks of macarons, a young woman bored behind windows that are too high: in 2005, Sofia Coppola filmed these images at Versailles. Twenty years later, the palace returns them to her at the Petit Trianon, in an exhibition she conceived with him, in the very place the queen had been given to escape the court. You enter through the crates from the filming. The costumes by Milena Canonero, which won an Oscar in 2007, the storyboards, the annotated scripts, the set photographs, the sets reassembled piece by piece. Then the sequences return, projected in the very place where they were filmed, and the location begins to work against its image, setting and memory superimposed. The film had been divisive. By dismissing historical biography to follow a teenager thrown into a hostile court, the director risked misinterpretation. She succeeded: her pastel pink has since permeated fashion, design, and photography, and time has proven her right on the essential point: the boredom of a young woman confined within a set. Reviled during the Revolution, sanctified during the Restoration, and aestheticized under the Second Empire, Marie Antoinette had already changed her image three times. The fourth is Kirsten Dunst's, a pale teenager beneath mountains of tulle, and it holds up well.

PALACE OF VERSAILLES, PETIT TRIANON
Until January 24, 2027
Trianon Estate, 78000 Versailles
Daily except Mondays 12pm-5:30pm (12pm-6:30pm until October 31)
Trianon Estate Ticket: €15 - Reduced Price: €12 - Free for under 26s