Since Marie-Antoinette in 2006, Sofia Coppola had not given us any sign of life. “I’m working on a new project” were the few words we had to cling to.
Tipping the Velvet, Sofia’s planned screen adaptation of Sarah Walters’ classic, has finally been abandoned. A baby with his companion Thomas Mars (the leader of the group Phoenix, ed.), a mini line for Vuitton leather goods, but still nothing in the cinema.
After months of waiting (years, in fact, if you count the wait since Marie-Antoinette (Sofia Coppola is not to be rested on her laurels)), the trailer for Somewhere, her fourth feature film, is finally available.
Stephen Dorff(World Trade Center, Public ennemies) stars opposite the young Elle Fanning (recently seen in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and incidentally Dakota Fanning’s sister).
It’s the story of an actor, Johnny Marco, a kind of Johnny Depp from his days of destroying hotel rooms with Kate Moss, living reclusively in his suite at the (cult) Château Marmont in Los Angeles.
The unexpected visit of his 11-year-old daughter brings him back to a reality from which excess of all kinds had often distanced him. The first images only confirm what Francis Ford Coppola’s daughter had said she wanted to direct:“an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles“.
A painting of adolescence, the director’s favorite subject, the fragile relationship between a completely lost father and his daughter at the dawn of puberty, set to music composed by the group Phoenix, who had already worked on Lost in Translation in 2003.
The release in the United States is scheduled for the end of the year, Somewhere will arrive on our screens in early 2011 … In the meantime, the trailer.
Andrea Ottaviani
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