![]() In obviously tight collaboration with cinematographer Philipe Le Sourd (who shot Coppola’s “ The Beguiled”) and editor Sarah Flack (who has been with Coppola since “ Lost in Translation” I’m obliged here also to disclose that Sarah is a friend), Coppola gives us a world of beautiful and surprisingly still surfaces. And while latter-day considerations of Presley’s behavior in courting, or one might say capturing, Priscilla are replete with condemnations of how creepy it was-the word “groomer” is tossed around, and in some specific ways seen here, it is absolutely apt-from the point of view of a dreamy, distracted Austin Texas girl far from home the attention of this very shy superstar is exhilarating. ![]() Coppola’s movie, written by the director and based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, honors the author by giving us her perspective. Army, stationed in Germany Priscilla was the daughter of another officer stationed there and was, well, 14 at the time the two were introduced. The King famously met Priscilla Beaulieu in 1959 when he was in the U.S. For the characters held captive the cage is often a gilded one, and the cage in search of a bird (in Kafka’s phrase) in “Priscilla” is Elvis Presley. Sofia Coppola is a personal filmmaker whose work follows a thematic through line: her pictures are all, in one way or another, about captivity and isolation.
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