Marie Antoinette is arguably the centrepiece of Coppola’s MTV-inflected career, conceived as it was as a sort of love letter to the music and music videos she loved as a teenager.
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Sydney Urbanek is a Toronto-based writer on movies, music videos, and things in between. She has an MA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto, where her thesis was largely about Jonas Åkerlund’s collaborations with Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Madonna. She also writes a music video newsletter called Mononym Mythology.
I like noticing new things in Mermaids—about Charlotte, about Joe, about Charlotte and Joe—with each pass of the film, realizing that there’s no real villain in their story, and that neither can claim to be the hero.
