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PRISCILLA USA-Italy, 2023, 113′, color, feature

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.

 

I was moved by Priscilla Presley’s memoir of her experience as a young woman at Graceland and have tried to capture what it felt like for her going into Elvis’ world and finally emerging to find her own life. It’s important to me as an artist to show the world through my character’s eyes without judgement.

Sofia Coppola

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Venice ’23 – Best Actress, Nomination for Golden Lion

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American screen-writer, film director, actress, and producer. Lost in Translation won the Academy Award for her original screenplay and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture. Along-side Lina Wertmüller and Jane Campion, Coppola became the third female director to be nominated for an Academy Award for directing. Coppola's next film was the biopic Marie Antoinette, adapted from the biography by British historian Antonia Fraser. It débuted at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival where, despite boos in the audience, it received a standing ovation and won  Cinema Prize of the French National Education System. In 2010, with Somewhere, she became the first American woman to win the “Golden Lion” at the Venice Film Festival.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

1996 Bed, Bath and Beyond – short
1998 Lick the Star – short
1999 The Virgin Suicides
2003 Lost in Translation
2006 Marie Antoinette
2010 Somewhere
2023 Priscilla 

DIRECTOR
Sofia Coppola
SCRIPT
Sofia Coppola
CAMERA
Philippe Le Sourd
MUSIC
Phoenix
CAST
Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Dominczyk, Ari Cohen, Tim Post
PRODUCERS
Lorenzo Mieli, Sofia Coppola, Youree Henley

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