(Subtitled, don't like Sofia Coppola, take a detour!)
I've always loved Sofia Coppola's films, and I think she's probably the best girl in the world.
Sofia's first feature film, Virgin Suicides, was shot with a 35MM hand-cranked camera donated by her father, based on Jeffrey Eugenides' 1993 novel of the same name, through the Lisbon Sisters The experience of youth expresses our nostalgia for the past innocence and first love. Sofia made it into an author's film. The original sound album made by Air for it is like a god-made sound, like a quiet town in the dusk after school. The feeling of panic, as if something has happened, but not knowing what to do; Edward Lachman's photography (he later photographed the equally fascinating and deadly Far from heaven and Carol) is also unforgettable;
Sofia Coppola seems to have a natural ability to find girls - in "Lost in translation", she captured the young Scarlett Johansson, making her the Muse of the entire universe; "Marie Antoinette" youth Breathtaking rock repertoire complemented by a classical soundtrack completes the film's perfect stylization, Dunst rewrites Marie Antoinette's temperament with innocence and admiration; "Somewhere" won a Golden Lion and more Make Elle Fanning officially surpass Dakota and become a girl specimen.
Let's stop the nostalgia and go back to today's theme...
Under the Peonies | The long-lost beauty crowd
The film, which just premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, is based on Thomas Cullinan's novel "A Painted Devil" and is a remake of the 1971 "Peony Flower" directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood. "The Beguiled" is Sofia Coppola's work that has been in violation for 4 years. There is almost no suspense to be shortlisted for the Cannes City Master Competition, which can be said to be huge.
The story is wonderful. It focuses on the period of the Civil War. The northern soldier played by Colin Ferrell accidentally entered a southern girls' boarding school. His arrival also made the female teachers in the school sprouted, and the dark side of human nature such as jealousy and revenge. Just a touch. Among them Nicole Kidman plays the headmistress, Kirsten Dunst plays the female teacher Edwina, and Elle Fanning plays the female student Alicia.
"Under the Peony" seems to be a superficial actress club. After such a long-awaited beauty show, after Ozon's stunning "Eight Beauties" and the dazzling but questioned "Nine", there is probably no film that can include so many good-looking actresses, and more Don't say that the director herself is a woman with excellent temperament. In particular, the two generations of queens, Dunst and Fanning, fought against each other, and brought the legendary actress Kidman to town. One can't help but worry that with so many Blonde Bitches gathered together, it's another generational tearing drama, and the lace news will emerge one after another.
Nicole plays the principal of the town hall and holds real power; while Dunst is a humble and obsessed female teacher, who is probably a gentle example of the whole play; what is interesting is Fanning, a precocious female student who openly teases the plaything of the previous generation , is a ruthless horn, in short, the three of them are easy to shine, and I think everyone can work harder to steal the spotlight.
However, after the filming was calm, and after the release in Cannes, people could see several actresses in harmony, especially Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning performing wonderful pictures of grandparents and grandchildren playing together from time to time, and they had to admire the high emotional intelligence of the three .
After the film's premiere in Cannes, Sofia's always polarized comments continued. Chinese and European film critics scoffed at Sofia's petty sentimentality, and the American media shouted "Masterpiece". I don’t really want to tell stories to others. In short, you can tell whether the quality is good or not. But seeing such a scene on the red carpet in Cannes, it should have been better to watch the Shura field with too many vulgar plots.
Chapter1. She's still the most amazing on the red carpet...
Nicole is different from Fanning and Dunst. She is not a member of Sofia's royal team, or because she is a cold goddess on the outside, she is really an Australian village woman at heart, and she doesn't care about dressing. But Australians have maintained an excellent living condition for healthy eating and body management. (At the beginning of the year, "Big Little Lies" showed off his belly and dazzling ass!)
Her appearance on the street is surprisingly boring, but on the red carpet, she is an irreplaceable god. The Oscars selected the 20 most beautiful costumes in the past 20 years, and Yi can account for five sets. The Dior created by John Galliano in the 1990s is gorgeous and dazzling; nominated by Moulin Rouge in 2002, a Chanel paired with loose diamonds showed the beauty of women to the extreme ; The year he won the championship was Jean Paul Gautier, who chose a black dress because he was anti-war. The perfect lines and shoulder details were outstanding; the endorsement Chanel wore a silver custom that year, which is noble; Balenciaga in the Nicholas period gave it to her The most beautiful 00s also made her choose Balenciaga for her second wedding without hesitation.
In my opinion Nicole Kidman is perhaps the most underrated creative actress in Hollywood , her amazing beauty makes people question her ability to create characters and ignore her brave attempts at different roles. In Cannes this year, she made a cameo appearance as a punk queen in "How to Pick Up a Party at a Party", and she played a silver-haired old lady in the second season of "Top of the Lake". Lanthimos collaborated on this grim, experimental film and, as she herself says, is as daring as she was at 21!
Chapter2. Or the lazy girl in the film industry, but also has a brilliant street moment
Kirsten Dunst is a talented actor. At the age of 11, she played a 35-year-old soul in "Interview with the Vampire", jealous, sad, and had it when she was not really a "woman"; but when she became an adult Later, he did not accept a more challenging role to achieve himself, and became known to the world as "Spider-Man's Girlfriend". And her free, sly girly atmosphere has become a personal label. "Death of the Virgin" and "The Queen of the Dead" are the witnesses of her most beautiful years. The high school girl Lux, whose skin is almost transparent, is provocative but indifferent, like the youthful dreams of all boys. Interspersed with vinyl pop songs, it has an unspeakable doomsday atmosphere.
Kirsten is a good dresser for New York pie, and in a time when street photography has not yet become a vulgar story, she is the most concise and fashionable girl on the street, and there is no doubt that this makes her and Sofia Coppola closer. I always thought Kirsten, 20, was the best looking person in miu miu, the pixie was a little quirky, even a little provocative. Unlike the so-called "fairy spirit" that is advertised today, she represents a kind of Urban chic who walks in the city, lives in an apartment, and shows up at parties but remains reticent.
But Dunst, who won the Cannes movie queen in "Melancholia", has really become a lazy girl in the film circle. In addition to being incapable of receiving the show, she has also gained weight on her own. It is even rumored that Sofia ordered her to film "Under the Peony". Lose weight, suffer! refuse!
In fact, Sofia certainly knows how to make Dunst unique, just like adding a pair of Converse canvas shoes to a 12th century character film. When Antoinette and a group of friends ended their night of revelry and sat on the beach watching the sunrise, Sofia made you travel through time and space outside the camera and experience the mourning of youth with them.
Chapter3. But in the end it was her representative, on VOGUE
The first to become Icon should be Dakota. Like Dunst, she has exposed her amazing acting talent and precocious personality since she was a child. However, what she could not predict is that a few years later, her sister Elle made her debut and stole her almost instantly. All the scenes and markets, from then on, the younger sister was little Daisy in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", Cleo in "Somewhere", then "Neon Demon", "20th Century Woman" and "Under the Peony" ". She endorsed Tiffany and miumiu, and is the person all girls want to become.
Elle Fanning in "Neon Demon" officially bid farewell to the role of a girl and became a cool girl who intrigues with a group of supermodels. This play is like her coming-of-age ceremony; and in "20th Century Woman", she began to shake hands with boys, Teach the male protagonist to smoke, like those precocious girls in "Girls", no longer show cuteness to the public, and finally have his own screen characteristics.
And even if "Under the Peony" selected three big actresses to participate in the drama at the same time, and finally successfully appeared in "Vogue" to become the beauty under the lens of Annie Leibovitz, it was still Elle. When the elder sister conquered childhood with an innocent smile, the younger sister went further with a kind of indifference and indifference that always strayed from the outside world. This sister drama of Elle and Dakota is reminiscent of Sasha and Gemma. The world is too harsh for girls. The sweet era is over, and the more individual and sensitive one finally gets the world.
End. Of course, when it comes to true fashion idols, it's still her!
Born into the greatest movie family in the world, she proved herself to be a good director no less than her father in radically different ways - while her father was on the books with the most famous gangster epic in history, she was willing to fall for herself girlish feelings. These emotions are all the thoughts of adolescence, the softness and sadness of fussing, loneliness, short-term affection, and saying goodbye, and then say goodbye.
This is actually normal. As a real it girl, I answered the phone for Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel since I was a child (you noticed that she was wearing a Chanel all-black classic suit on the red carpet of "Under the Peony"), intern at Vogue, in Japan Establishing her own fashion brand... Her bourgeois complex is in her bones, and it is no wonder that the sweet sadness, the full sense of alienation, and the loneliness of being in the city and nowhere to be found in her films are being ignored by those film critics who are unable to understand. attack.
Many people say that there is almost only one character in Sofia's films, which is herself. She is like Marie Antoinette in her own lens, enjoying superficiality and pleasure is innocent, she is also like those young thieves in Bling Rings, young is innocent.
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