Priscilla: Sofia Coppola returns with a biopic
A year and a half after Baz Luhrmann’s extraordinary Elvis biopic, the king returned to our screens, but in a supporting role. In fact, Priscilla is, as the name suggests, a biopic about the woman who shared the world star’s life between 1962 and 1972.
Sofia Coppola’s film (co-produced by Priscilla Presley) retraces the crucial moments of this relationship. The cast includes Cailee Spaeny in the title role (whose performance was awarded at the Venice Film Festival), and Jacob Elordi in the role of Elvis.
What do the first reviews say about the film?
Released in French cinemas this Wednesday 3 January, Priscilla by Sofia Coppola was well received by French critics, with a very satisfactory average of 3.8/5 among our colleagues atAlloCiné. Selected pieces.
The Cinema Notebooks: Priscilla is above all a very delicate melodrama, a whispered film, which makes the confessions in the master bedroom the right sound level for this story.
CinemaTeaser : A biopic with a fantastic angle (…) PRISCILLA is perhaps – even if it has all the characteristics of Coppola’s music – the most ruthless of Sofia Coppola’s films, whose benevolence in the way she looks at Priscilla is unmatched by cruelty of it. imposed on men of power.
The world : A variation on adolescence, the film also talks about consumer society, housewives, husbands, the Sixties, rock’n’roll, drugs and tells, through the illusion of the beauty of life, the fear of loneliness and of boredom.
First : Priscilla is the perfect counter shot to Baz Luhrmann’s flamboyant Elvis, the dark reverse of the glamorous setting. And through the choice of reduction of her which immerses us in the head of her heroine and of descent into hell of which she gradually becomes aware, Sofia Coppola manages to achieve nothing. She tells the story of the flu in a magnificent gesture of director and brotherhood mixed together.
Telerama : The director signs the dazzling portrait of a prisoner walking towards her freedom.
The Parisian : From a formal point of view we are in a Sofia Coppola film, with a vaporous atmosphere that underlines the boredom of the wife often left alone in Graceland. Basically the film leaves a mixed impression.
Le Figaro : Sofia Coppola paints a sensitive yet harmonious portrait of Elvis Presley’s wife who married as a teenager before joining the gilded prison of Graceland.
Source: Cine Serie
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