The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides. Just the name may scare away viewers from this film. But if you are a fan of the 1993 novel, you will appreciate the way this vivid portrayal captures the spirit of love, life, and death. The... Read more at imdb.com

Sofia Coppola's film is not unlike the music provided by Air for its soundtrack: nice, but a little bit hollow. All in all, I would say I enjoyed this film, just like all in all, I enjoy Air's music when... Read more at imdb.com

"The Virgin Suicides" is a touching, artistic film which transforms you through various stages of grief to realize what you already knew all along - Suicide is pointless. The film focuses on the lives of five teenage sisters from the... Read more at imdb.com

As far as really really good movies I've had the fortune of seeing recently the one that really stands out is a overlooked movie that came out last year called "The Virgin Suicides." The movie while one of the more... Read more at imdb.com

I'm uncertain why the daughter of a Hollywood icon would select as her first director effort a nearly unfilmable book of linguistic time bombs and nearly unspeakable tragedy. Jeffrey Eugenides's book The Virgin Suicides is one of the underappreciated gems... Read more at imdb.com

I had been meaning to see The Virgin Suicides since I first heard it was being released to film, based on its 1993 book by Jeffrey Eugenides. I never got around to it until the other night when I rented... Read more at imdb.com

"Virgin Suicides" is a movie by Sofia Coppola that talks about the Lisbon family. A group of boys, who adored them, come together after 20 years and try to solve the mystery of the Lisbon sisters. Parents (James Woods, Kathleen... Read more at imdb.com

I've never read the book, so I don't know how different this is. The only thing I know is that this adaptation by Sophia Coppola is fantastic.The movie is about the Lisbon sisters, whose parents are overly protective. After one... Read more at imdb.com

A strange, surreal flight-of-fancy of death and love, remembrance and how romanticized our memories become. It's also very funny, tending to mix the black comedy of something like "Heathers" with the stifling suburban scenario of "American Beauty" (but it's better... Read more at imdb.com

I've searched for this movie more than two years, cause I've read the book and I do love it. It's one of the most beautiful stories about teenagers that had ever been written. The suicides of these five beautiful girls... Read more at imdb.com

The film is beautifully shot and contains some decent performances, but in the end, I just didn't get it. The Virgin Suicides" is all about the beautiful Libson sisters of Gross Pointe, MI, and the boys who love them. ... Full Review

Coppola uses (and overuses) a variety of narrative techniques that distance the viewer from the story and characters. I don't think this movie was sending any message at all, and maybe that was its problem. ... Full Review

The screenplay was smartly adapted by Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola (who produced the film), from the lyrical novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. Sofia Coppola Creates A Dreamy, Lyrical World Five blond beauties become `Virgin Suicides' Peter Stack, Chronicle Staff Critic Friday, April 21, 0 ... Full Review

Sofia Coppola proves herself to be a much, much better director and writer than an actress. Every actor in this film is perfectly cast and its the meshing of talent that really makes the material sing. ... Full Review

The Virgin Suicides marks the strongest directorial debut of the year. Adapted by Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is based on the book by Jeffrey Eugenides about five lovely and mysterious blonde girls in the suburbs in the 1970's. ... Full Review

One of the greatest things about Sofia Coppola's 1999 movie The Virgin Suicides (in addition to Kirsten Dunst's airy performance and the fact that it's based on the incredible novel by Jeffrey Eugenides) was the music in the film. ... Full Article

Just when my friend Allison and I thought we had free reign to comment throughout the entire movie, one other person walked in, five minutes after the lights dimmed. ... Full Article

Twee dagen nadat ik de film gezien heb spookt deze nog steeds door mijn hoofd. De prachtige beelden in combinatie met de aangrijpende gebeurtenissen en de muziek van Air zorgen voor een flink aantal kippenvelmomenten en het is lastig om... ... Full Article

Whether it's a skill learned hanging around the sets of her father's movies or something in the family blood, Sofia Coppola has definitely inherited a distinguishable talent as a filmmaker. ... Full Article

Plot As five repressed daughters discover sex, tragedy looms around the corner. Review Adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides' critically admired 1993 novel by Francis Coppola's daughter Sofia, this sultry tale of the five Lisbon sisters drowning in the sea of emotions... ... Full Article