I really just don't think she's very good. I think Lost in Translation fell together more by accident than anything else. Just not impressed.
She's like the Charlize Theron of directors.
She's lucky she got Bill Murray. Otherwise that movie was toast.
shareShe has weird girl fantasies about white women she don't even look like. Blonde hair, small nose, WASP faces. (every movie she ever made stars a white girl or girls with blonde hair, every single one) When she put two white characters in Japan (lost in translation) while making all the Japanese characters caricatures or props, shoulda been a sign. She didn't including black people because she didn't wanna mess up her blonde white aesthetics. Because her movies are so shallow, I don't even think she's deep enough to know she's discriminating. If this new movie has a story line other than pretty objects and blonde girls staring out of a window bored with being privilege, she probably didn't even actually write the story. (oh she didn't !)share
But she's been riding daddy's coat tales with her bland movies for years. And soon her cousin or whoever Gia will keep up the nepotism directing for her
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Sofia Coppola's films in general are utter, bubble gum trash. She writes with no depth or self awareness, not even for women! Her films only appeal to the Tumblr set.
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I see that she has a history with erasing WOC. The Asian woman, who actually masterminded the whole Bling Ring, does not even have a speaking line in her movie about it. It is hilarious that the version with Clint Eastwood is the one that features the black character while
'Her films only appeal to the Tumblr set.'
You serious? Tumblr is perhaps the biggest cesspool of extreme SJWs on the internet. What you're describing her movies as is against all of what they stand for.
She ran out of ideas. All her movies are white washed. But they were original scripts. And she also re-uses the same actresses. She's been booking kristin since forever. Elle fanning is her new puppy. And i kinda digged her movies hard until now. Doing this kinda shows her intentions and they are plain obvious. Her audience comes first from her family name, second by critics, and third by the stories she's telling. Shes fooling herself or us with that excuse. The first Beguiled movie stays unbothered maintaining the original characters.share
Sofia Coppola Wants You to Feel Bad for the Very Rich and the Very Sad
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/sofia-coppola-on-the-rocks-review
Here, Sofia Coppola is drawing on her own life, trying to approach a “ridiculous” premise with “some realism.” Just as Lost in Translation was inspired by her own youthful crisis of creative uncertainty alongside a failing marriage to director Spike Jonze, so is On the Rocks a highly personal film of twenty years later, charting a midlife crisis based on her own struggle to stay creative while navigating parenthood.
But it’s not much of a struggle, since everyone tends to be ultra-successful in the Sofia Coppola Cinematic Universe. Felix, for example, is an art dealer who wears flashy suits and has a chauffeur to drive him around. But the issue in her films is how disconnected they are anyway — not actual struggle. How many alienated walks do they take, how much do they gaze disconsolately out of windows, how neurotically are they messing up their posh lives, while never seeming to realize that almost every problem they have is not only readily solvable but, in fact, hardly even counts as a problem in most people’s estimation?
Even I think Lost in Translation is massively overrated, saved by a wonderful turn by Bill Murray and a great soundtrack.
I think there is a great director in there, I think Virgin Suicides is her best work to date. I thought The Beguiled is a solid film. I thought The Bling Ring and Somewhere were boring and self indulgent. Marie Antoinette was interesting take but doesn't work as a overall film.
She has her style of filmmaking and doesn't seem to want break from it. None of her films beside Lost in Translation have really hit at the box office but she seems to be respected name, so good on her.
I disagree. I think she has a very keen cinematic eye on story and tonality but her subject matter is a bit overly personal so for most audiences it comes across as self-indulgent, or as it's overly stated "pretentious".
If she were an actor, I'd say she's "Good within her range, she just has a very narrow range."
Coppola makes films about rich girls, most of them good and occasionally very good, and if you're interested in films about well-off young women then check out something she made. And if you don't want to see movies about rich young women, look away, because you're not getting anything else.
PS: Theron is the most inconsistent actor in the world! Sometimes she's amateurish, sometimes she's absolutely fantastic and BTW she totally deserved the Oscar she got, most of the time she's somewhere in between. That is, all over the place.
She's cut from the same cloth as her father. Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette and The Virgin Suicides are all standouts.
Anyone who says Lost in Translation is "shallow" doesn't know what they're talking about. The fools.
Shes not funny at all.