Period pieces become Keira Knightley. With her lean, elongated torso and swan neck, it’s almost as if she’s been intelligently designed for getting dressed up with an earlier era in mind. Think of the art deco dresses of “Atonement” or the swash and buckle of “The Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.
In her new film, “The Duchess,” she is dressed to the 11′s in brocades and silks and whalebone thingies that would swallow up most actresses. No problem for her. She can even carry off a hairstyle that suggests a small cocker spaniel might be dozing on her head. “Marie Antoinette” had something of the same look, but Sofia Coppola’s picture was meant ironically on at least a dozen different levels-one of them being how to walk around with a nesting bird entwined in your hair.
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