With today’s hurried theatrical-to-DVD transitions, it’s interesting to consider a situation that may affect Sofia Coppola‘s Marie-Antoinette, which will open in France and Belgium on 5.24.06 — 15 days from now — but not until 10.13 in the U.S. It’s entirely possible, you see, that the film will be out on DVD in France before it opens in the States. (I don’t know that this will happen for sure, but DVD releases usually occur within four to five months of a theatrical debut.) The historical drama-with-New Order-music-on-the-soundtrack will open in England on 9.8.06.

Oh, and since I excerpted a negative review from a French film critic earlier, here’s a 4-star positive review from another Frenchman…although it’s all in French and the image doesn’t allow me to copy and paste it into Google’s translation tool. I don’t know if the author, Philipe Paumier of Cine Live, is a smart-tough critic in the Glenn Kenny mold or more of a Peter Travers type. I suspect the latter, but if anyone knows his work…