Screening of the documentary Making Marie Antoinette by Eleanor Coppola, part of the 70th BFI London Film Festival.
MAC Birmingham is screening Making Marie Antoinette on Saturday 17 October, as part of the 70th BFI London Film Festival. It's a documentary by Eleanor Coppola, and it's one of the many titles the festival is bringing to the venue this year, with several showing in the UK for the first time.
The film is built from over 80 hours of footage, and the narrative is held together by Coppola's own production diaries, read aloud by Diane Lane. That voiceover forms the spine of the documentary, and around it, Coppola looks at the making of the film. It's described as a profound exploration of creativity, the unique pressures placed on female artists, and maternal love — a fair bit to unpack from a film about a film.
It's a documentary that doesn't just stay on the surface of the production. By using her diaries as the guide, Coppola turns the process of making the movie into a study of the creative life itself, and the specific weight that comes with it when you're a woman in that world. If you've got an interest in how a film actually comes together, or in the personal side of the work that goes into it, this is exactly the kind of thing it's aimed at.
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The screening runs for 85 minutes and starts at 2:00pm on Saturday 17 October at MAC Birmingham, with tickets from £11.95.
