Despite connections, Sofia Coppola charts her own course (My SA)

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Despite connections, Sofia Coppola charts her own course (My SA)

share: digg facebook twitter A familiar plot informs director's new film. When
she wanted to call attention to her new movie, ?Somewhere,? she asked George
Lucas if he would show it in the private screening room at his complex in the
Presidio. Somewhere? was voted the top prize at the Venice Film Festival by a
jury headed by her former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino, who stressed that their
relationship did not affect him in any way and that Coppola won the award
?fair and square. When she wanted someone to write a minimalist score for
Somewhere, she got her French boyfriend, Thomas Mars, to compose something
with his Grammy Award-winning group, Phoenix. Since the producer, Francis Ford
Coppola, happens to be Sofia's father, you could say she had an in. For all
her connections, the 39-year-old filmmaker has gone her own way in a career
that has already netted her an Oscar for writing ?Lost in Translation? and a
nomination for directing it. Like that film, ?Somewhere? tells a story of a
famous actor (played by Stephen Dorff) who is secluded in a large hotel ? the
Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles ? while trying ...

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