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Watch: A Beginner’s Guide to Sofia Coppola

20 Jul 2020

Words by Will Webb

Painting depicting a man's face, with distinct features and a serious expression. Contrasting colours of pink and green used in the background and hair.
Painting depicting a man's face, with distinct features and a serious expression. Contrasting colours of pink and green used in the background and hair.
A video cel­e­bra­tion of this acclaimed Amer­i­can film­mak­ers, ahead of the release of her lat­est, On the Rocks.

Glitz and glam­our, fad­ed fame and mixed for­tunes, comedic capers and morn­ing after silences. For Sofia Cop­po­la, a moment’s peace is usu­al­ly only found when on the move, gaz­ing out the window.

Born into Hol­ly­wood roy­al­ty, she got her first taste of movie star­dom when she was just a few months old, mak­ing an appear­ance in her father’s film The God­fa­ther. Some 27 years lat­er, she moved behind the cam­era for her debut fea­ture The Vir­gin Sui­cides. Plen­ty of famous kids have made a movie or two, but Sofia Coppola’s work has struck a chord with view­ers and crit­ics alike.

In antic­i­pa­tion of the release of her sev­enth fea­ture, On the Rocks, video essay­ist Will Webb offers a clos­er look at Coppola’s direc­to­r­i­al trade­marks and the­mat­ic inter­ests, and how they have made her one of the most cel­e­brat­ed film­mak­ers work­ing today.

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