― Chris, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Pete, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― fritz, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Queen G of the &th Brigade of Inermentalist Post-Surrelaist Scholarasses, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Alex would that not completely and utterly decimate the entire point?
― nabisco%%, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lindsey B, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Man, you make it sound like somethinf from the golden age of Hollywood. It only came out in 1999. I liked it, kind of, for its feel. At the time I'd just read the book (whilst listening to the Air soundtrack on headphones). It's all a bit jumbled up in my mind but I think the film was like the book only less so. I think Sofia Coppola got quite a lot of help from her cinematographer Edward Lachman.
― N., Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Does this not describe every film adaptation of a book ever?
― Nicole, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― , Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
No. Often a film fails to capture a book's essence (eg. Trainspotting), or deliberately goes somewhere new with the source material (eg James Bond movies).
With The Virgin Suicides, it was like it had got the quality of the feel right, it was just a less powerful somehow.
Probably. But maybe that point needed to be decimated. I thought the girl's stories were interesting enough to hold interest without the unnecessary intermediary of boy's view. But that's just me.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
The soundtrack to this has sounded beautiful this afternoon (Ironing with a glass of red).
― djh, Sunday, 14 October 2018 13:18 (six years ago)
A Zoomcast mostly about the music:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydQRCF_UVI
Not many posts here, surprised--still my favourite of her movies.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:09 (four years ago)