While Sofia Coppola continues to become more distinctive and distinguished in her evolving career, there’s still a keenly-observed innocence and rapturous sense of disassociation and desolation to her soulful coming-of-age feature directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, that’s hard to top.
What’s so impressive about Virgin Suicides is how much of Coppola’s signature style was established from the first frame onward.
The disquieting sense of malaise and melancholy painted inside this Jeffrey Eugenides adaptation is profound and poetically painful.
The tale of these tragic suicides was an astounding start to her filmmaking career.