The Virgin Suicides
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For her first feature film, The Virgin Suicides (1999), Sofia Coppola commissioned British fashion photographer Corinne Day to join her on set. Renowned for her unadorned, grungy photographs of iconic models of the 1990s, Day?s representation of female beauty met its match in Coppola, whose debut marked the first of her unaffected, empathetic depictions of womanhood. Edited from Day?s original negatives, this volume gives mesmerising and unprecedented insight to Coppola?s enigmatic staging of the Lisbon sisters and their suburban trappings. In Day?s photographs, the lush mystique of Coppola?s set runs through images of the young actors at work and between takes, their candid posturing and pensive expressions reflecting the intimate and collaborative environment of the shoot. Fragments of the set and costume design appear suggestively ? crucifixes, pink lace bras, homecoming dresses, beauty products, and toffee apples ? all playing their part in Coppola?s depiction of the yearning and repression of adolescence.
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Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) is a screenwriter, film director, and producer. In 2003 she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation (2003) and also became the third woman (and the first American woman) to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. Her films include The Virgin Suicides (1999); Marie Antoinette (2006); Somewhere (2010), winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, The Beguiled (2017); On the Rocks (2020); and Priscilla (2023).
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