Name: The Virgin Suicides
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Author: Sofia Coppola
ISBN: 9781915743824

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Physical Book

Author

Sofia Coppola

Publisher

Mack Books

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781915743824

The Virgin Suicides

Sofia Coppola (Author) · Mack Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Virgin Suicides"

For her first feature film, The Virgin Suicides, 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, which launches alongside The Virgin Suicides' twenty-fifth anniversary, gives mesmerising and unprecedented insight into 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. Completed with new texts by Sofia Coppola and Jeffrey Eugenides, this volume opens a fascinating dialogue between Eugenides’s original text and Coppola’s cult adaptation. Designed by Anamaria Morris for Joseph Logan Design

Sofia Coppola

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Sofia Coppola is an American director, screenwriter, and producer born on May 14, 1971, in New York. Daughter of the famous director Francis Ford Coppola, she initially stood out as an actress in film and television before focusing on directing.

Her first major success as a director was Lost in Translation (2003), which earned her the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Throughout her career, she has explored themes of alienation, women's lives, and nostalgia, with films like Marie Antoinette (2006) and The Virgin Suicides (1999).

Coppola has become one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema, appreciated for her unique visual style and focus on complex characters.

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