HOLLYWOOD - Director Sofia Coppola has hit back at critics who mauled her new movie Marie Antoinette as an attempt to Americanize French history.
Coppola's film chronicles the life of the tragic French queen during the revolution in the 1790s.
It has been criticized for its American pop-video feel, but Coppola insists she wanted to accentuate the youthful slant to the story.
She says, "I wasn't making a political movie about the French revolution, I was making a portrait of Marie Antoinette and my opinions are in the film.
"We modernized certain things that were relatable to me and a modern audience.
"The story is about teenagers in Versailles, so I wanted it to have that energy of youth and teenage feeling to it."
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