Coppola:
- her films are as meditative and aesthetically stunning as they are filled with honesty and genuine emotion.
- women's sexuality
- centering on the loneliness of being female and surrounded by a world that knows how to use you but not how to value and understand you-perhaps in a way telling her own story of being misunderstood with her family background-wanting to be set apart from her famous director father and all complexities that come from being a Coppola
- What I appreciate is how all her movies are unique in the sense that they're not predictable, she changes things up and stories end up completely different to expectations-perhaps Coppola's way of showing us that things are hardly ever how they seem-challenging our perspective of what should be
-Virgin Suicides:
-the story is overwhelmingly and pervasively macabre
-narrators refer to people and places without much explanation, as if the reader is a resident of the neighborhood who should already be familiar with them. And they refer to "exhibits" (photos, artifacts) as if the reader is standing by, viewing a collection of items that relate to the Lisbon girls' life
-Jeffrey Eugenides' writing:He describes the setting and period perfectly, but without wordiness or excessive detail. He writes tragedy with sympathy and not sentimentality. He has a sense of humor and perfect timing. Themes (in this case decay, contagion) spring up out of the text and drop into your lap, without being too confrontational
- beautiful and faithful adaptation by Sofia Coppola
- very, very dark, to the point of being fairly disturbing.
- draws one into a dark and dreary place, Coppola adds her own haunting mark to the already painful story with its intensity
- Coppola's direction engagingly avoids the coming-of-age cliches
Lost In Translation:
- Coppola delivers Bob into her movie with the impression that it'll be all about him (he has plenty of great scenes, even at just the beginning), but Charlotte enters the story, and we're never quite the same.
- She keeps Bob and Charlotte apart- contrary to the norm in such stories-which is pleasing as it moves away from the predictable cliche
Marie Antoinette:
- In an interview, Coppola suggests that her highly stylized interpretation was intentionally very modern in order to humanize the historical figures involved. She admitted taking great artistic liberties with the source material, and said that the film does not focus simply on historical facts – "It is not a lesson of history. It is an interpretation documented, but carried by my desire for covering the subject differently."
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