Kirsten Dunst, who even at her ditziest gives off a whiff of the narcoleptic, stars as MarieAntoinette, betrothed as an Austrian teen-ager to the clueless Dauphin ofFrance (Jason Schwartzman).
France's rehabilitation of Marie-Antoinette began in 1858 with a biography by the Goncourt brothers and continues today with books by Evelyne Lever, a historian.