Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Love Her Tender


As I said yesterday from the poster for Sofia Coppola's Priscilla movie alone it really seems as if she's captured something very specific about the suburban textures of the moment when their love story takes place -- the late 50s slash early 60s powder-blue rotary-phone yellow-plastic-sofa aesthetic that I personally remember from my great-grandparents house, which remained a time-capsule of that moment all though when I was a little kid in the 1980s. I have such a vivid memory of it, and it's all over this today dropped trailer.

I double-checked Sofia's age and she's several years older than me so I'm sure she also has even more vivid recollections of this vibe, and I can't help but believe it's a big part of why she wanted to make a movie set in this world. She does love a textural vibe!

Even the logo, haha. And even besides that Priscilla Presley as a character fits right in line with her cinema of trapped well-to-do women -- the girls from The Virgin Suicides, ScarJo in Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette. It's all, as I tweeted, very Lana Del Rey. And I am here for it!



Priscilla, the movie, is out in October.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

THEY MET WHEN SHE WAS 14

GROSS

Jason Adams said...

Hey don't yell at me, I have been clanging that bell for years! I brought it up in my post about the movie's poster yesterday

Jake said...

Damn, Elvis was a pedophile 😬

Anonymous said...

I wonder if all the people shouting "groomer" at every LGBTQ+ person will finally cancel Elvis, too.