Overview
- The film was assembled from roughly 80 hours of footage shot by Eleanor Coppola on the set of Sofia’s 2005 Marie Antoinette and was finished by Sofia with editor Aaron Matthews following Eleanor’s 2024 death.
- The documentary premiered this month at the New York Film Festival and has screened at the BFI London Film Festival.
- Diane Lane provides voiceover drawn from Eleanor’s journals, and Eleanor’s friends Davia Nelson and Liz Bird contributed editorial input during completion.
- Theatrical release is scheduled for October 23 with a concurrent 4K reissue of Sofia’s 2006 Marie Antoinette and the documentary will begin streaming on MUBI on November 6.
- The film foregrounds craft and logistics—costumes, art direction and Versailles access—while functioning as a close mother–daughter portrait that may deepen the critical reappraisal of Sofia Coppola’s original film and offer a model of quiet, collaborative authorship for young filmmakers.