![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than inviting us into their heads in order to help us better understand her subjects' actions, Coppola uses the camera as a distancing tool, forcing us to hang back and watch with the neighborhood boys who moon over the blond beauties from across the street. Cook), Bonnie (Chelse Swain) and Therese (Leslie Hayman), all of whom killed themselves, as the unseen narrator and the on-screen title tell us, 25 years ago. The difficult-to-categorize film (funny without being flip, heartbreaking without much happening) tells the story to the extent that it has one of the teenage Lisbon sisters: Cecilia (Hanna Hall), Lux (Kirsten Dunst), Mary (A.J. Sad, beautiful, banal and arrhythmic in the way that real life (and death) is, the auspicious and off-kilter feature debut from writer-director Sofia Coppola mines tragedy from the tedium of 1970s suburbia and finds romance in our futile search for reasons.īased on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, "Virgin" attempts neither to glorify nor satirize suicide, or virginity for that matter. Like its deceptively bean-spilling title, "The Virgin Suicides" leaves nothing and everything to the imagination. ![]() Cook and Chelse Swain in Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides." ![]()
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