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A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
(R, 97 min)
6:00 PM
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The Essentials: Sofia Coppola
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With this debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s popular first novel, The Virgin Suicides conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents—as told through the collective memory of a group of men who were boys at the time and still yearn to understand what happened. Evoking its 1970s suburban setting through ethereal cinematography by Ed Lachman and an atmospheric score by Air, the film secured a place for its director in the landscape of American independent cinema and has become a coming-of-age touchstone. [Criterion]
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner
Director: Sofia Coppola
Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Mystery
"A lovely, luminous dream."
— Elizabeth Weitzman, Film.com
"A surprisingly intricate struggle with absence, grief, and memory."
— Richard Brody, New Yorker
"A haunting tale and a stunning directoral debut from Sofia Coppola."
— Liz Beardsworth, Empire Magazine
"It gets under your skin and into your head, and you don't want it to leave."
— Ann Hornaday, Baltimore Sun
"Coppola's adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's novel is both tender and devastating."
— Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
"The film unspools with such a rich and peculiar unpredictability that it feels as though we are seeing -- or dreaming -- these things for the first time."
— Sarah Hepola, Austin Chronicle
"It's hard to remember a film that mixes disparate, delicate ingredients with the subtlety and virtuosity of Sofia Coppola's brilliant The Virgin Suicides."
— Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
"Tragic, haunting, and sometimes darkly comedic, this movie leaves a strong impression in its telling of a story about the destruction of innocence."
— James Berardinelli, ReelViews
"Possesses a tone that wobbles masterfully between whimsy, dread, affection and horror, building on rich performances and an understated showiness to cast a queer and tingly spell."
— Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian
"The Virgin Suicides offers a glimpse into the murky unknowability of adolescence, and its legacy is tied to the portraits of femininity with which Sofia Coppola has crafted her filmography."
— Roxana Hadadi, Crooked Marquee
"In an astonishingly assured film debut, Coppola captures the poetry and sweetness of Eugenides' novel without allowing any of the standard rites of passage -- first dates, high-school dances -- to feel trite."
— Sarah Hepola, Austin Chronicle
