The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito
Synopsis:
In a Michigan suburb in the mid Seventies, five teenage sisters of devout and over-protective Catholic parents commit suicide. Twenty five years later their four besotted boy neighbours have still not got over them or managed to explain their actions.
Review:
Just showing how similar material can be handled very differently - the film shares themes and even scenes with De Palma's Carrie - this drama of adolescent isolation (literal) occupies the same world as Ang Lee's The Ice Storm but with different parental shortcomings. In the end it neither poses nor answers enough questions to sustain the interest once over, although the consistency of tone impresses from a first-time director.
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito
Synopsis:
In a Michigan suburb in the mid Seventies, five teenage sisters of devout and over-protective Catholic parents commit suicide. Twenty five years later their four besotted boy neighbours have still not got over them or managed to explain their actions.
Review:
Just showing how similar material can be handled very differently - the film shares themes and even scenes with De Palma's Carrie - this drama of adolescent isolation (literal) occupies the same world as Ang Lee's The Ice Storm but with different parental shortcomings. In the end it neither poses nor answers enough questions to sustain the interest once over, although the consistency of tone impresses from a first-time director.
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito
Synopsis:
In a Michigan suburb in the mid Seventies, five teenage sisters of devout and over-protective Catholic parents commit suicide. Twenty five years later their four besotted boy neighbours have still not got over them or managed to explain their actions.
Review:
Just showing how similar material can be handled very differently - the film shares themes and even scenes with De Palma's Carrie - this drama of adolescent isolation (literal) occupies the same world as Ang Lee's The Ice Storm but with different parental shortcomings. In the end it neither poses nor answers enough questions to sustain the interest once over, although the consistency of tone impresses from a first-time director.