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Despre film in cartea "The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen" de Richard Crouse (pag.237):
"The Virgin Suicides is one of those rare occasions when a film
surpasses the book it is based on. Writer and first-time director Sophia Coppola manages to render the complex novel down to its core, without losing the heart and suburban spirit of the book. [...]
Set in the upscale suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in the early 1970s, the film introduces us to the Lisbon sisters. They are five
blonde and sweet girls ranging in age from 13 to 17, who have captivated the neighborhood boys with their angelic beauty The group of guys, led by Tim Weiner (Jonathan Tucker), worship the sisters from afar, using binoculars to secretly watch them.
The girls are unattainable, not because they don't like the boys, but because their strict parents (James Woods and Kathleen Turner) barely let them out of the house. In a misguided effort to protect their kids
from the big bad world, the elder Lisbons are overprotective and smother the girls with rules and regulations. [...]
Coppola has taken a beautifully but densely written book and boiled it down to its essentials. Eugenide's novel is obsessed with details,
so much so that the book threatens to collapse under the weight of its own minutiae. On film, Coppola follows the golden rule of directing,
"show us, don't tell us," and avoids the downfall of the book. The
wonderfully choreographed Lisbon party scene, for example, quickly conveys the whole
awkwardness of the social gathering, from the well-meaning interruptions of the parents to the harmless flirting of the girls.
[...]
As the most luminous of all the sisters Kirsten Dunst shines as Lux. On her face you can see the struggle of a young woman trying to find out who she is but never quite succeeding. Even when she is smiling there is a sadness that comes through, as though "the imprisonment
of being a girl" is too much for her to bear. And in the end, I guess
it was.
The Virgin Suicides is Sophia Coppola's directorial debut, and
it is a strong, self-assured piece of work. She balances the dark humor of the piece with real emotion and treats the young characters with respect,
not as some strange mutations who are trying to learn the ways of the adult world. She realizes that the boys who loved these girls couldn't give them the one thing they needed most: understanding."
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