In a career-spanning interview, the director talks about making her instant-classic new movie, fighting for respect in her early years, forgetting she appeared in The Phantom Menace, and much, much more.
In Sofia Coppola’s eighth feature, Priscilla, she shoots tail-finned Cadillacs as lovingly as she does her latest extraordinary lead actress (Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley), capturing the beauty and hidden darkness inside Graceland — and in America writ large. Along the way, Coppola tells her most haunting coming-of-age tale since her exquisite directorial debut, 1999’s The Virgin Suicides. This time, it’s the true story of a teenager drawn into the all-consuming world of Elvis Presley (Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi, taller and scarier than Austin Butler) at the height of his fame, a scenario most modern viewers will inevitably find horrific.
The seductive, unsettling Priscilla feels like the culmination of Coppola’s two and a half decades of filmmaking so far, and the latest confirmation that she’s one of Gen X’s greatest auteurs. But she seems most proud that she’s reaching a new generation of fans, who keep turning up as she promotes a new career-retrospective coffee-table book, Sofia Coppola Archive.
“We just had a book signing at Barnes & Noble in L.A.,” she says over coffee at a West Village spot not far from her home, “and I met all these kids that were wearing Virgin Suicides T-shirts, and talking about that and Marie Antoinette. It makes me so happy that they’re connecting to them and appreciate them, because I made them for young people.”
She makes horrible, boring films so not likely to take her up on that. Seen enough.
Idk about a monster, but he wasn’t a good person. It wasn’t abnormal for the ages of their relationships back then (she was 14 when she married him and he was 24), but he was a drug addict that constantly cheated on her and was abusive.
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***From Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt:***
In a career-spanning interview, the director talks about making her instant-classic new movie, fighting for respect in her early years, forgetting she appeared in The Phantom Menace, and much, much more.
In Sofia Coppola’s eighth feature, Priscilla, she shoots tail-finned Cadillacs as lovingly as she does her latest extraordinary lead actress (Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley), capturing the beauty and hidden darkness inside Graceland — and in America writ large. Along the way, Coppola tells her most haunting coming-of-age tale since her exquisite directorial debut, 1999’s The Virgin Suicides. This time, it’s the true story of a teenager drawn into the all-consuming world of Elvis Presley (Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi, taller and scarier than Austin Butler) at the height of his fame, a scenario most modern viewers will inevitably find horrific.
The seductive, unsettling Priscilla feels like the culmination of Coppola’s two and a half decades of filmmaking so far, and the latest confirmation that she’s one of Gen X’s greatest auteurs. But she seems most proud that she’s reaching a new generation of fans, who keep turning up as she promotes a new career-retrospective coffee-table book, Sofia Coppola Archive.
“We just had a book signing at Barnes & Noble in L.A.,” she says over coffee at a West Village spot not far from her home, “and I met all these kids that were wearing Virgin Suicides T-shirts, and talking about that and Marie Antoinette. It makes me so happy that they’re connecting to them and appreciate them, because I made them for young people.”
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She makes horrible, boring films so not likely to take her up on that. Seen enough.
Idk about a monster, but he wasn’t a good person. It wasn’t abnormal for the ages of their relationships back then (she was 14 when she married him and he was 24), but he was a drug addict that constantly cheated on her and was abusive.
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