It's Unanimous: The French Boo With Lust, Apparently
"'Marie Antoinette': Best or Worst of Times? Under the Spell of Royal Rituals," by Manohla Dargis, New York Times, today:
CANNES, France, May 24 — Though no one called for the filmmaker's head, "Marie Antoinette," Sofia Coppola's sympathetic account of the life and hard-partying times of the ill-fated queen, filled the theater with lusty boos and smatterings of applause after its first press screening on Wednesday.
"Code Unknown," by J. Hoberman, Village Voice, Wednesday:
CANNES, FRANCE — ... Received with a lusty round of boos and a smattering of applause, Southland Tales provoked the festival's most negative press screening and hostile press conference since The Da Vinci Code.