Actors Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi go to Graceland in director Sofia Coppola's melancholy movie adapted from Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir.
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. Coppola has always had a way with anachronistic, subtly discombobulating musical choices, but aside from the band , this particular song is period-perfect, and piped in directly from Presley’s own memories.
It’s hard not to get swept up alongside Priscilla, too, even as Coppola’s clear-eyed gaze keeps pulling us back. Even during this swoony quasi-courtship, the cracks in Elvis’ Prince Charming veneer are all too apparent. A year or so later, his military service ends and he returns to the U.S. and his Hollywood movie career, vanishing for a long stretch from Priscilla’s life. “Maybe it’s time to forget about him,” her mother sensibly suggests.
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