Thursday, May 16, 2024

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from: 

Priscilla (2023) 

Elvis: Don't tell me to play goddamn Beatles 
in my house. We're in America, I swear to God.


Sofia Coppola's Priscilla Presley bio-pic feels deeply underrated already to me, less than a year since its release -- if you didn't see it in the theater then now is your chance, as the blu-ray is for sale on Amazon for seven dollars and fifty fucking cents. Do your duty! Elvis served and looked hot as hell while doing it -- now it's your chance. In all seriousness it's a terrific movie, I thought -- here is my review. I doubt we need to worry about Sofia getting to make more movies -- she seems well placed enough in the cinematic firmament to be fine, even if this one under-performed. But I'd rank this one among her best to date. Not that I really think she's ever made a straight up bad movie, even if the one before this On the Rocks was slightly forgettable. But Priscilla is prime her, and should rank as such.

1 comment:

schmiedepaul said...

I adored it. Very compelling. Thanks Mubi!
And so great to see its star doing something totally different in Civil War a week later.