Review: Cailee Spaeny delivers a star-making performance in 'Priscilla'

Coppola's alternate version is startling in its authenticity.

No one captures girlhood on film better than Coppola and she's back in action here.All praise to the sublime Cailee Spaeny, who digs deep into the life and loneliness of Priscilla Beaulieu. This army brat met Elvis in 1959 at 14, married him at 21 , and found life in his Graceland pumpkin shell different from her fantasies, much like the young queen set adrift in a French palace in Coppola's "Marie Antoinette.

There's also a spot-on needle drop from Frankie Avalon's "Venus," with a lyric that might be expressing Elvis' sentiments exactly: "Venus if you will / please send a little girl for me to thrill."2023 Fall Movie Preview: A look ahead at the most highly anticipated upcoming filmsAnd a little girl is how Elvis, 10 years Priscilla's senior, treats the woman he calls "baby." They meet near a U.S.

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