Making Marie Antoinette, Andrew Durham

Marie Antoinette (2006) was Sofia Coppola's ambitious third feature film. In the making of the film she was given unprecedented access to the Palace of Versailles, where she created a world and vision whose influence continues to reverberate twenty years later. Coppola’s long-time friend and collaborator Andrew Durham photographed daily life on and off the set all the way to the film’s premiere at Cannes, and Making Marie Antoinette documents these events. 

Sofia Coppola's interpretation of Marie Antoinette’s life at the palace saw Versailles filled with flower arrangements, macarons, and elephants, costumes by Milena Canonero and shoes by Manolo Blahnik, and an unforgettable cast including Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Marianne Faithfull, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, and Molly Shannon. Andrew Durham captured these actors between takes, in hair and make-up, and revelling somewhere between reality and the entrancing fiction of the film.

This volume brings together not only an unprecedented collection of Durham’s photographs but also provides an oral history of the film’s making by Keaton Bell and a new in-conversation between Durham and Coppola, forming a must-have deep-dive into the making and mythology of one of Coppola’s most spectacular productions.

Mack Books, 176pp, 17cm x 34cm, illustrated hardcover in debossed linen with dustjacket, 2026