Somewhere, Sofia Coppola
Jan. 16th, 2011 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharplittleteethJust back from seeing Sofia Coppola's Somewhere.
It's about a actor, Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), who is aimlessly filling in his days at the Chateau Maromont in Hollywood while he recovers from a minor injury. His ennui is only punctured when his 11 year old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) comes to stay with him.
It's quite similar to her first film, Lost in Translation. But where Lost was filled with a melancholy beauty, this film is numb. Johhny Marco drifts through the parties and the women, feeling nothing. And this is where Coppola is perhaps too literal: there are long shots where nothing happens, which makes the film arduous.
What saves it is Elle Fanning. She's radiant.
Somewhere is my least favourite of Coppola's films. Too many scenes are too long, and it's a very "bitsy" film, made up of little vignettes that never quite add up to something richer. If you've seen the trailer, you've pretty much seen the film. I'm glad I saw it, though, just because Fanning is so enchanting.
It's possible my opinion was coloured by the audience at my session, though. People complain about rude teenagers at the cinema. My fellow audience members were mostly old couple, and they spent the whole movie whispering and muttering to each other. It was very distracting.
It's about a actor, Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), who is aimlessly filling in his days at the Chateau Maromont in Hollywood while he recovers from a minor injury. His ennui is only punctured when his 11 year old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) comes to stay with him.
It's quite similar to her first film, Lost in Translation. But where Lost was filled with a melancholy beauty, this film is numb. Johhny Marco drifts through the parties and the women, feeling nothing. And this is where Coppola is perhaps too literal: there are long shots where nothing happens, which makes the film arduous.
What saves it is Elle Fanning. She's radiant.
Somewhere is my least favourite of Coppola's films. Too many scenes are too long, and it's a very "bitsy" film, made up of little vignettes that never quite add up to something richer. If you've seen the trailer, you've pretty much seen the film. I'm glad I saw it, though, just because Fanning is so enchanting.
It's possible my opinion was coloured by the audience at my session, though. People complain about rude teenagers at the cinema. My fellow audience members were mostly old couple, and they spent the whole movie whispering and muttering to each other. It was very distracting.
