The director’s eighth film Priscilla puts us in the shoes of Elvis Presley’s teenage girlfriend. It’s a story she thinks we can all understand
have matured into a noble beauty, and yet she still has a youthful mien. She offers a handshake and a softly spoken greeting, then asks the waiter, very politely, if she could have a pot of tea.
and the artist and documentary filmmaker Eleanor Jessie Coppola, sat at the centre of a sprawling cinematic dynasty and holidays were spent on different sets around the world. Initially, she resisted doing anything so “lame” as to enter the family business, unlike her cousins Nicolas Cage or Jason Schwartzman, her aunt Talia Shire, brother Roman, grandparents, uncle and most others members of the clan.
Even so, there is something deeply uncomfortable about watching a 24-year-old global icon grooming a schoolgirl still barely in her teens. Did she view Priscilla through a #MeToo lens? “I just put myself totally in her perspective and tried to make a film about what if you were her. I didn’t think too much about all the different perspectives.
But not everyone understands the details. Some find Coppola’s obsessions bordering on slight. The director remains unapologetic about her love of surface. “The trappings, all the more exterior things, are all part of it. To me it’s part of the story and the emotional feeling in it.” “I just want to experience someone else’s world for that moment,” adds Coppola. “That’s all I’m trying to do. When I was starting out [as a director] my dad gave me this encyclopedia of poetry. And he was like, ‘Film is poetry.’ It doesn’t have to explain. Poetry is just a feeling. And I just want to feel.”
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