The critics at Cannes have been rough on some of the more anticipated films this year. The Da Vinci Code and Southland Tales, the new film from the Donnie Darko director, have both fared exceptionally poorly with the critics. It seems that Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette isn’t breaking the trend.

Marie-Antoinette, one of the early favourites for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, was booed at the end of the first press screening on Wednesday.

The period drama stars Kirsten Dunst and was directed by Sofia Coppola, who made the award-winning Lost in Translation.

Coppola looked taken aback after being told of the early reaction and said it was "disappointing".

Remember yesterday when I admitted to enjoying the misery of others? I suppose this is a little more vindictive, but I find pleasure in this film sucking, for it takes down two of my celebrity peeves at once: Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst.

It’s not that I don’t like Sofia Coppola, I just think she’s overrated. Yes, I am just about the only person who didn’t love Lost in Translation. And just look at what she did to Godfather III (I’ve never seen the whole thing, and I'm talking out of my ass, so take that with a grain or twenty of salt). I'd like to see her taken down a notch on the General Pretension and Disdain for Plebians scale.

I assume I don’t really even need to cover why I don’t like Kirsten Dunst’s boney ass. Let’s just say that I don’t find her whiney voice and ‘pity me’ acting style all that adorable. I don't want anything bad to happen to her physically or personally, just, ya know, for her movies to bomb and her outfits to be universally panned. That's not so terrible.

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