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The Virgin Suicides

1999

Sofia Coppola

Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Josh Hartnett ...

6.7

34,150

Drama In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. What happened to the Lisbon sisters is a tale at once darkly funny and deeply poignant, a story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. It is at its core ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Stack SFGATE	"Coppola infuses her movie with a dreamy poetic tone, and deftly translates the essential metaphors of youth, sexuality and death without sacrificing an earthy humor."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"A surprisingly intricate struggle with absence, grief, and memory."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Coppola gives Suicides a haunted quality that is undeniably affecting, a feeling intensified by a wonderfully funny and touching Dunst."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It looks stranger and more enigmatic than ever (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The girls come to represent the intangible mysteries and sorrows of all women (...) Coppola has a deft sense of composition and a great ear for music"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"'The Virgin Suicides' leaves nothing – and everything – to the imagination. Sad, beautiful, banal and arrhythmic"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Coppola has carefully preserved the spirit of her source and, for the most part, succeeded in her efforts to find a visual idiom appropriate to the lush melancholy of the novel's language (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A very curious and eclectic piece of work—fresh even when it's awkward"	POS
United States	Emanuel Levy Variety	"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"	POS

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