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- 96 Minutes
- Paramount Pictures
- Language English
- Country USA
- Rated: R
- Format: Widescreen
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- Directed by Sofia Coppola
- Written by Sofia Coppola
- Starring Danny DeVito, James Woods, Josh Hartnett, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst
The Lisbon sisters live in a sleepy Michigan community -- five teenagers whose beauty has bewitched a group of neighborhood boys. Isolated by their overprotective parents (Woods and Turner), they move like fleeting visions against the suburban landscape, luminous and unattainable. But when school hunk Trip Fontaine (Hartnett) convinces Lux Lisbon (Dunst) and her sisters to go to the prom, the boys' romantic fantasies threaten to come true -- until they are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever. Based on the acclaimed novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES is "a haunting mystery which captures with pinpoint accuracy both an era and an age.
"In her promising feature directorial debut, Sofia Coppola tackles the issue of teenage suicide with an assured treatment in THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, effectively employing a seriocomic tone." - Emanuel Levy, VARIETY
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Comments
A number of critics wrote that this film succeeds because of its "convincing emotion", but what I loved about this movie was the emptiness and weightlessness of its characters. The five beautiful, fair-haired Lisbon sisters, doomed from the film's outset, are weightless, emotionless fantasies. We view them entirely through the male gaze, whose day dreams about the Lisbon sisters make up the bulk of the film. The virgins' suicides are completely mysterious BECAUSE we never knew who these girls really were. A visually stunning film.
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