Film No. 4 (2024) January 18th. 1:30 PM EVENT CINEMAS, Cine 9, Innaloo.
"I need a woman who's going to understand these things might happen. Are you that woman?" (Elvis asks Priscilla if what the tabloids print is going to effect her judgements of him).
NOMMINEE: Best Performance by a Lead Actress (Cailee Spaeny) Gotham Film Critics Awards.
Does Baz Luhrmann (ELVIS, 2022) or Sophia Coppola do the better job of depicting the real Elvis? Neither; they each have created very different films. But they reinforce the fact Elvis was a naïve, complex character.
In Priscilla, Coppola proves how adept she is at shining a sympathetic light on young women who are either drowning, or nearly so, as they make their path in life. But she does it with Priscilla's permission, via her 1985 memoir ELVIS AND ME. Priscilla P has said on numerous occasions that the movie was true to her. Daughter Lisa Marie who only read the script before sadly passing in early '23 described Coppola as vengeful in the depiction of her father.
Cailee Spaeny gives us a little girl who, at age 14, got swept up in a life, she had no control over. Did her loving parents, really have a choice? Coppola's lavish sets and art work create a fairy-tale of loneliness. We are lonely with this sweet young girl. You draw your own conclusions.
Coppola does make some judgements. That's what film makers do. And make no mistake, Coppola is a good film maker. She is neither vengeful or scathing of Elvis, in my opinion. 10GUMS.
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