With her latest film On the Rocks, writer/director Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) once again conjures a restrained, leisurely-paced but extremely charming story of an unusual relationship between an older man and a younger woman. Here, the younger woman is Lauren played by the wonderful Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) a writer and mother of two small children starting to
Read moreSofia Coppola’s films are rarely plot driven, instead they focus on relationships, manners, gestures and as in The Bling Ring and The Virgin Suicides, female sub-cultures. Coppola’s remake of the 1970 Clint Eastwood film The Beguiled exemplifies these themes. Set in the deep south during the American Civil War as the confederate campaign began to collapse, the film sees wounded
Read moreSophia Coppola’s latest film The Bling Ring is based on a 2010 Vanity Fair article about the antics of a group of LA high school kids who broke into the homes of dubious celebrities like Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge and Lindsay Lohan to steal clothes and jewellery. In Sophia Coppola’s film the group are led by bratty alpha-female Nikki (Emma
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