Film Music Moment of the Day: The Coronation of Marie Antoinette

Displaying exquisite sensitivity to its grandly sweeping melody, Sofia Coppola creates a masterful film-music moment by setting Marie's post-coronation procession to "Plainsong" by The Cure—cutting into and out of the tableau in a confident, decidedly postmodern way. Coppola has said that she wanted to explore both the similarities and differences between life at Versailles and the way we live today, and accomplished this through juxtaposition of rich period imagery and emotive, contemporary music—showing us how immediate the feelings of an 18th century queen could be, and how regal rock.