How ‘Priscilla’ reexamines an iconic love story
11 months, 3 weeks ago

How ‘Priscilla’ reexamines an iconic love story

LA Times  

The romance between Priscilla and Elvis Presley was not all fireworks, or at least that’s the dramatic story Sofia Coppola paints in “Priscilla,” where the director tunes into the psyche of the young woman who married the iconic singer. “Sofia was looking for something intimate,” cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd says about the film that sees Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi play the famous couple who first meet in Germany when Priscilla was 14. “Sofia knew what she wanted with ‘Priscilla.’ She would concentrate on Cailee, and if you look, a few times, you won’t see a reverse on Jacob. Heightening the point of view, Le Sourd would frame “closer to Cailee and wider on Jacob,” pulling the audience in with her instead of him.

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Cailee Spaeny on playing Priscilla Presley: ‘Their marriage was strange and shocking’
1 year ago

Cailee Spaeny on playing Priscilla Presley: ‘Their marriage was strange and shocking’

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Then we blinked and it was all over.” Not once did …

Priscilla review: Sofia Coppola's film slowly and surely ties a bowtie noose around your neck
1 year ago

Priscilla review: Sofia Coppola's film slowly and surely ties a bowtie noose around your neck

Hindustan Times  

In an exclusive interview with this writer, Sofia Coppola said her movie on Priscilla Presley is designed as a ‘doll stuck in a doghouse.’ Priscilla consistently feels like that – the girlhood of a teenager restricted by the palatial mansion of a grown-up man at the peak of his career. Cailee Spaeny plays Priscilla Presley in Sofia Coppola's movie Fairy …

How ‘Priscilla’ uncovers the vulnerable woman beneath the hairspray
1 year ago

How ‘Priscilla’ uncovers the vulnerable woman beneath the hairspray

LA Times  

“She was very kind but hesitant,” Oscar-winning writer-director-producer Sofia Coppola says of Priscilla Presley, recalling the first time the two discussed Coppola turning Presley’s 1985 bestselling biography, “Elvis and Me,” into the film “Priscilla.” “She’s very private and wasn’t looking to put this out right now. “She just said, ‘Make sure that the love is there between us.’ Because it …

Why Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla divided Elvis’s family
1 year, 1 month ago

Why Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla divided Elvis’s family

BBC  

Why Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla divided Elvis’s family A24 Priscilla With the news that Lisa Marie Presley objected to Sofia Coppola's new film, Nicholas Barber takes a look at the relationship at the centre of the film. It wasn't Coppola's job to elevate Elvis, but to bring him down to Earth as a flawed, complicated human being "As his daughter, I …

In 'Priscilla,' we see what 'Elvis' left out
1 year, 1 month ago

In 'Priscilla,' we see what 'Elvis' left out

NPR  

In 'Priscilla,' we see what 'Elvis' left out Enlarge this image toggle caption Philippe Le Sourd Philippe Le Sourd It's hard to imagine many viewers going into Sofia Coppola's Priscilla completely cold, with no preconceived notions about Elvis Presley or at least a vague awareness of his marriage to Priscilla Beaulieu. That marriage, like nearly every other facet of the …

Review: ‘Priscilla,’ Sofia Coppola’s best movie in years, shimmers with beauty and heartbreak
1 year, 1 month ago

Review: ‘Priscilla,’ Sofia Coppola’s best movie in years, shimmers with beauty and heartbreak

LA Times  

One of the first songs you hear in “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola’s wistful dream of a movie about Priscilla Presley, is a cover of Frankie Avalon’s “Venus,” pouring from a snack bar jukebox in 1959. Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in the movie “Elvis.” It’s hard not to get swept up alongside Priscilla, too, even as Coppola’s clear-eyed gaze keeps pulling …

Movie Review: Teen dreams and adult nightmares in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’
1 year, 1 month ago

Movie Review: Teen dreams and adult nightmares in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’

Associated Press  

Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ’60s. Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” starring Cailee Spaeny, captures all the dreaminess, the absurdity and, finally, the nightmare of falling in love with Elvis. The swoony early scenes of Coppola’s film find a solitary Priscilla …

The Priscilla Effect: Sofia Coppola’s Film Gets 7-Minute Standing Ovation
1 year, 3 months ago

The Priscilla Effect: Sofia Coppola’s Film Gets 7-Minute Standing Ovation

News 18  

Priscilla, the biographical drama adapted from Priscilla Presley’s memoir, Elvis and Me, sheds a spotlight on her life journey. A visibly shaken Priscilla Presley wiped away tears during the 7-minute #Venezia80 standing ovation for Sofia Coppola’s #Priscilla. pic.twitter.com/tv1eJZQMFm— Ramin Setoodeh September 4, 2023 Ahead of the premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, the Priscilla team gathered for a press …

A 'haunting' biopic from Sofia Coppola
1 year, 3 months ago

A 'haunting' biopic from Sofia Coppola

BBC  

Priscilla review: Sofia Coppola has directed a 'sympathetic tribute' to Elvis's wife Philippe Le Sourd/A24 Sofia Coppola's "understated, non-judgemental portrait" of Elvis's wife Priscilla Presley is "quietly affecting", writes Nicholas Barber from the Venice Film Festival. Adapted from Priscilla Presley's memoir, Elvis and Me, it's written and directed by Sofia Coppola, a specialist in capturing the ennui of wealthy people …

Priscilla Presley “excited about interpretation” of her book by Sofia Coppola
1 year, 6 months ago

Priscilla Presley “excited about interpretation” of her book by Sofia Coppola

The Hindu  

Priscilla Presley has endorsed Sofia Coppola’s forthcoming film Priscilla, which is a biographical drama film based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, reported People. On Thursday, the ex-wife of the late Elvis Presley shared the film’s poster on Instagram, saying, “I am excited about the interpretation of my book by the masterful Sofia Coppola. ”I’m sitting there watching this …

‘Priscilla’ trailer: Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny feature in Sofia Coppola’s Elvis Presley film
1 year, 6 months ago

‘Priscilla’ trailer: Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny feature in Sofia Coppola’s Elvis Presley film

The Hindu  

After hits like Marie Antoinette and The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola is taking the audience back in time yet again to narrate the story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley through the eyes of the latter. Featuring Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Beaulieu Presley and Jacob Elordi as Elvis, the film is based on Priscilla’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, Pricilla is …

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