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Somewhere is a 2010 drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. The film follows Johnny Marco, a newly famous actor, as he recuperates from a minor injury at the Chateau Marmont, a well-known Hollywood retreat. Despite money, fame, and professional success, Marco is trapped in an existential crisis and has an emotionally empty daily life. When his ex-wife suffers an unexplained breakdown and goes away, she…
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With *Lost in Translation* easily taking the spot for favorite movie of the year (about twenty years too late, but still) for me, I decided to give Sofia Coppola's other movies a go, in the hope of rekindling some of that love-lost magic that's so present in the Bill Murray classic. While *The Virgin Suicides* was a sad disappointment, I found myself more and more entranced by 2010's *Somewhere*. Coppola's *Somewher…More
Sofia Coppola movies aren't for everyone. She seems to enjoy long silent shots to establish the mood in her movies. While this cerebral dialogue-less approach can be effective, it seems that she gets carried away with it. Or, more likely, there are people out there that actually enjoy this approach. I am not one of them. I like a film that has a point. A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end. A film sho…More