15 Movies That Say More About Their Makers Than They Realise

9. Marie Antoinette - Sofia Coppola

A girl born into (or married, or stumbled onto) wealth has the world at her feet and is able to live a life of complete luxury, but that fact is incredibly boring to her. Now, we could be talking about more or less any of Sofia Coppola's films - Lost In Translation, The Bling Ring, The Virgin Suicides (which actually contains more than one disenchanted lead) and Somewhere (though he's not female, he fits the rest of the profile to a tee) - or we could just be talking about Coppola herself. The daughter of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola is about as close to Hollywood royalty as you can get today, and has led something of a charmed life, which perhaps explains why her films feature characters with issues that epitomise the idea of First World Problems; none more so than Marie Antoinette, who as France's Dauphine and Queen in the 18th century was literally royalty. Coppola tells the film's story leisurely, revelling in scenes of Kirsten Dunst as Antoinette partying and relaxing with friends to a contemporary soundtrack, all the while becoming tired of the extraordinary riches and privilege afforded her. No one's saying that Sofia Coppola couldn't make a film about a character who never has to worry about going hungry or paying the rent on time, but it does seem pretty clear that she identifies much more closely with queens and movie stars than she does ordinary folk...