“Obviously Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year-old girl.” (Cecilia, Virgin Suicides)
Affectionately known as cinema’s favorite ‘Nepo Baby’, Sofia Coppola has come a long way from her initial appearance in her father’s iconic trilogy, The Godfather. Now standing as a unique auteur truly shaping the narrative of the ‘girl era.’
With pitch-perfect precision, Coppola translates the fabric of girlhood, revealing the heartaches and struggles of her characters as they journey into adulthood. These dreamy personas are stuck in a patriarchal society, always yearning for something more, a taste of authenticity and freedom beyond their current lives.
Joined by producer and Coppola-fanatic, Sacha Gertsik shares both tales from her interview with Coppola at the Venice Film Festival last year, and her rich archive of Coppola-soaked memories, discussing how this American director continues to elevate the essence of girl-fabrication.
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Show notes
- 7 Ways Sofia Coppola Captures Isolation — Directing Style Explained | StudioBinder
- A Beginner’s Guide To Sofia Coppola | Little White Lies
- Forever Young | Hannah Strong
- ‘It Was Like Hosting the Ultimate Party’: An Oral History of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette by Keaton Bell | Vogue
- Priscilla and the Plight of Women(‘s Biopics) | Broey Deschanel
- Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Pretty | Broey Deschanel
- What a girl should be: a video essay on The Virgin Suicides | Fromrosiewithlove
- Hi Octane – Episode 1 – Sofia Coppola & Zoe Cassavetes (1994) | Comedy Central
Films mentioned
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- Priscilla (Sofia Coppola, 2023)
- Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023)
- Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
- Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski, 2022)
- May December (Todd Haynes, 2023)
- Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
- Jazz (Ken Burns, 2001)
- Pom Poko (Isao Takahata, 1994)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980)
- Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
- Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010)
- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
- The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
- The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017)
- The Godfather: Part 3 (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)
- Hi Octane (Comedy Central, 1994)
- Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
- Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
- Napoleon (Ridley Scott, 2023)
- El Conde (Pablo Larraín, 2023)
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr & George Hickenlooper, 1991)
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