Somewhere (2010)
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning
Synopsis:
A successful movie star divides his time between studio engagements and loafing around his hotel in L.A. Until, that is, his estranged wife foists their adolescent daughter on him for a spell and he realizes how empty his life is without her.
Review:
What he does about it is a sort of fey, Coppolesque equivalent of what the characters of those 70s classics like Five Easy Pieces and Vanishing Point did: he goes on walkabout. But this is more a film about the process than the result, and provided you are happy with the gentle pace it offers some fascinating insight into what the studio set get up to in their slacker moments, if not into father-daughter relationships (the girl in question is the epitome of placid acceptance and togetherness). Whether you have much sympathy for the existential ennui of this particular playboy is another matter.
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning
Synopsis:
A successful movie star divides his time between studio engagements and loafing around his hotel in L.A. Until, that is, his estranged wife foists their adolescent daughter on him for a spell and he realizes how empty his life is without her.
Review:
What he does about it is a sort of fey, Coppolesque equivalent of what the characters of those 70s classics like Five Easy Pieces and Vanishing Point did: he goes on walkabout. But this is more a film about the process than the result, and provided you are happy with the gentle pace it offers some fascinating insight into what the studio set get up to in their slacker moments, if not into father-daughter relationships (the girl in question is the epitome of placid acceptance and togetherness). Whether you have much sympathy for the existential ennui of this particular playboy is another matter.
Country: US
Technical: col 97m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning
Synopsis:
A successful movie star divides his time between studio engagements and loafing around his hotel in L.A. Until, that is, his estranged wife foists their adolescent daughter on him for a spell and he realizes how empty his life is without her.
Review:
What he does about it is a sort of fey, Coppolesque equivalent of what the characters of those 70s classics like Five Easy Pieces and Vanishing Point did: he goes on walkabout. But this is more a film about the process than the result, and provided you are happy with the gentle pace it offers some fascinating insight into what the studio set get up to in their slacker moments, if not into father-daughter relationships (the girl in question is the epitome of placid acceptance and togetherness). Whether you have much sympathy for the existential ennui of this particular playboy is another matter.