In 1770, Marie Antoinette, an Austrian archduchess, weds a French royal. Pressured to bear an heir to the French throne, she is ill at ease at the royal court and unready for a gory anti-royal revolt.

Many greeted Sofia Coppola’s provocatively anachronistic follow-up to her Lost in Translation success with bafflement. With time, both the audacity of her pink, punk period piece and her compassionate evocation of a woman under extreme circumstances has proven at once riotous, charming and enduring.