
She showed an occasional, almost cartoon playfulness in “The Virgin Suicides”; her latest, “Somewhere,” shows a very knowing sense of composition and pacing.
But apart from “Lost in Translation” — basically a short story carried along to feature length on the deadpan mug of Bill Murray — her movies range from the uninvolving to, as in “Marie Antoinette,” the just plain wrongheaded.
“Somewhere,” for example, the story of a dissolute movie star, begins with a shot of him testing out his sports car on a desolate racetrack.
The quick, immediate visual metaphor is of a rich man going in circles; the image, which tightly crops the oval so the car is off-screen for long periods, signals the director’s intent to show us only part of the picture, and have us fill in the rest.
Movie Review
Somewhere (R) Focus (98 min.) Directed by Sofia Coppola. With Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning. Now playing in New York.
Rating note: The film contains sexual situations and drug and alcohol abuse.
Stephen Whitty’s Review: TWO STARS
Except what Coppola goes on to show throughout the film isn’t elliptical as much as simply empty. The actor hires strippers (and falls asleep during their pole dance), stumbles down a flight of stairs, sits through a long makeup session — and slowly reconnects with a pubescent daughter he barely knows.
Yet there’s no drama here because there’s not a lot at stake, and the filmmaker’s preoccupations — which, since her teenage script for father Francis’ section of “New York Stories,” have focused on the precocious, the privileged and the bored — remain uninvolving.
Coppola wrote and directs “Somewhere” with material right up her alley. Instead of a 50-something, semi-retired movie actor, she posits a 30-something actor in his prime, Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), preparing go to Milan to shill for an upcoming movie opening. Before he leaves, he is entertained in the famous Beverly Hills hotel, Chateau Marmont, room 58, where he apparently lives full time, by twins, who dance on poles that they brought to the room with them. This pole dancing and the sex that follows-when he’s not too tired or bored, that is, or has not already fallen asleep–is routine. His life may change when he has a chance to reconnect with his eleven-year-old daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning), who is dropped off at the hotel by his ex-wife, about to leave on an extended trip because she has to “get away.” The pre-teen delivers an exhibition of ice skating that can be seen as a metaphoric contrast: the purity of the rink to the sleaze of the sex.
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