Somewhere felt like such a whole lot of nothing to me that it scared me off Coppola long enough that I didn't even bother with The Bling Ring (I'll catch up with it eventually). I thought her version of The Beguiled was a lovely bore, probably due to the whitewashing--the Don Siegel film is no masterpiece, but it sure is thorny.
All of that said, her first three films remain as impressive a cinematic hat-trick as any that I can remember in my moviegoing lifetime.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 June 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
As my sister said when I brought up the controversy of Coppola's Beguiled eliminating the enslaved characters from the original (which I haven't seen), "do you really want her trying to handle that?" Which I thought was fair. Certainly it's something of a failure to not be able to address race in your movie set in the danged Civil War South, but a better failure than trying and doing a bad job, in 2017.
Anyway I hope her next movie includes some of the weird stuff The Virgin Suicides has, like the vignetting, talking heads, anonymous cutaway characters, that bravura shit.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 8 June 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
depends if Jeffrey Eugenides has another book?
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 June 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
Somewhere felt like such a whole lot of nothing to me
otm. I just couldn't find anything, anywhere in that movie
― Anglo Scarfy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 9 June 2018 00:15 (five years ago) link
Eugenedies has like three or four other books, at least oneof them is amazing (middlesex) but she'd be the wrong director to adapt it
― akm, Saturday, 9 June 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link