![]() ![]() ![]() SHOWstudio's features editor and fellow Sofia Coppola groupie Hetty Mahlich spoke to Strong to discuss the seminal impact of Coppola's work, and how the author distilled this into an objective biography. A new book written by Hannah Strong, published by Abrams and illustrated by Little White Lies, is a triumphant testament to what Coppola's films have meant to her audience. With a penchant for a hazy, candy-coloured grade and minimal dialogue, the Hollywood director's critics reduce her films to being about style over substance. Trying to find their place in the world, her characters explore transitional themes the teenage Lisbon sisters in The Virgin Suicides (1999), suffocated by American suburban living, kill themselves one by one Marie Antoinette (2006) reveals the commodification of the female body Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson's lonely Tokyo tourists in Lost in Translation (2003) bond over a search for meaning in their disparate lives. Since her 1998 directorial debut Lick The Star, Sofia Coppola has gathered a comrade of fans who have resonated with the director's carefully crafted studies of love and loneliness of the lifelong battle of growing up. ![]()
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