Sofia Coppola was joined by so many of her celebrity friends to celebrate the launch of her first book, “Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023.”
04.09.2023 - 18:45 / variety.com
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The last time Sofia Coppola made a movie about a teenage royal living in a rococo palace that turned out to be a lavish prison, it was 2006, and the movie, “Marie Antoinette,” was a stylized dream of history — the story of the young queen as naïve and isolated rock star. Coppola’s new movie dramatizes the relationship between Priscilla and Elvis Presley, and the parallels with the earlier film are there if you want to see them.
This time, though, Coppola goes in the opposite direction, working with a casually meticulous docudrama authenticity. In the 17 years since “Marie Antoinette,” she has grown as a filmmaker — her storytelling now has an organic detail and emotional precision that sweep you right up.
Last year’s Elvis Presley biopic was called “Elvis.” The book that the new movie is based on was “Elvis and Me.” But Coppola’s film is called, simply, “Priscilla,” and that cues us to something essential: that the movie, while you could describe it as a love story, is not going to be told from a dual point-of-view. This is Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s story.
It’s all about how she met Elvis, at his home just off the U.S. military base in West Germany in 1959, when she was 14 years old.
It’s about how she was drawn, over the protests of her parents, right into his orbit — because he was charming and sexy and famous, because he pledged to love her tender, and who was going to say no to Elvis Presley? It’s about the honest affection they shared, rooted in the fact that both of them, literally or in spirit, were overgrown kids. It’s about how after not too long, Elvis moved Priscilla into Graceland, where she was treated like a precious object and given everything she wanted — except for
.Sofia Coppola was joined by so many of her celebrity friends to celebrate the launch of her first book, “Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023.”
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Priscilla Presley is opening up about her and Elvis’ controversial age gap… But is she really telling the truth? Or trying to clean up history??
Priscilla Presley has insisted that she “never had sex” with Elvis when the pair first met when she was 14.The late icon was 24 when he first met his future wife in Germany in 1959, with the pair marrying seven years later in 1967 when she was 21.Speaking at press conference at the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of Sofia Coppola’s new biopic, Priscilla which depicts their relationship, Presley said Elvis never took advantage of her, despite their age gap of 10 years when they first met.“It was very difficult for my parents to understand that Elvis would be so interested in me and why,” she said, via Variety. “And I really do think [it was] because I was more of a listener.“Elvis would pour his heart out to me in every way in Germany: his fears, his hopes, the loss of his mother – which he never, ever got over. And I was the person who really, really sat there to listen and to comfort him.
Sofia Coppola’s new film about Priscilla Presley is earning rave reviews.
The tears flowed for Priscilla Presley following the world premiere of Sofia Coppola’s biopic, “Priscilla”, in Venice on Monday.
Priscilla Presley is addressing the age gap between her and her late husband, Elvis Presley.
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla got a rousing response at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday evening. The pic, a biopic of Priscilla Presley, who was in attendance for the move based on the memoir she co-authored, scored a 7-minute, 45-second ovation.
Priscilla Presley was all shook up at the Venice Film Festival premiere of “Priscilla.” The subject of Sofia Coppola’s drama wiped away tears from her face on Monday night in Italy as the audience on the Lido exploded in a 7-minute standing ovation for the A24 indie film. Coppola and Presley attended the premiere alongside Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, who star as Priscilla and Elvis. The actors were granted a SAG-AFTRA waiver to promote the film amid the strike.
Priscilla Presley is speaking out about her controversial relationship with Elvis Presley when she was 14.
The devil is in the details. Pink-nailed toes scrunching on a pink carpet; a packet of false eyelashes; piles of chips in a Vegas casino; the pills. Always the pills: squeezed in a palm that opens to reveal its little white prize; lined up in bottles on the bedside table; slipped into a pocket on the way to school. “Maybe the pills are too much,” ventures Priscilla Beaulieu to her boyfriend Elvis Presley, after one of his flares of temper where she just manages to dodge his fist. “I have doctors looking after me,” he growls. “I don’t need a second opinion.”
The most powerful aspect of Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” premiering in Competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival, is in the title: to focus on Priscilla Presley, née Wagner, formerly Beaulieu, is to show a side of a marriage and of the King himself less familiar than and in some ways different from the romantic popular legend. But Coppola’s film does much more than simply show us the facts of how a fourteen-year-old girl gets to become the girlfriend and then wife of one of the biggest artists of all time.
Although she wasn’t seated at the dais this afternoon, and rather in the audience, Priscilla Presley loomed large over the Venice press conference for Sofia Coppola’s film, Priscilla, which screens in competition here tonight.
Ellise Shafer Though Priscilla Presley was not initially part of the Venice Film Festival press conference to discuss Sofia Coppola’s biographical drama about her relationship with Elvis Presley, she jumped in on the conversation when asked what it was like to see her life portrayed on screen. “It’s very difficult to sit and watch a film about you, about your life, about your love,” Priscilla Presley began as tears welled in her eyes. After taking a moment to collect herself, she continued: “Sofia did an amazing job.
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