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The Virgin Suicides

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In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. A story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. It is at its core a mystery story: a heart-rending investigation into the impenetrable, life-altering secrets of American adolescence.
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The Virgin Suicides drifts with a dreamlike melancholy that may strike some audiences as tedious, but Sofia Coppola's feature debut is a mature meditation on disaffected youth.

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Sophie Mackintosh New Statesman 07/26/2023
The film’s visual style is not in thrall to aestheticised despair, but best understood as an appreciation of the Lisbon girls themselves, a celebration of their lives, fairly unremarkable until they are not. Go to Full Review Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 03/27/2023
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And yet a film set in suburban Michigan in 1975, about a quintet of teenage pre-Raphaelite enigmas who take their own lives, somehow remains dreamy and beguiling. Go to Full Review Roxana Hadadi Crooked Marquee 05/09/2020
The Virgin Suicides offers a glimpse into the murky unknowability of adolescence, and its legacy is tied to the portraits of femininity with which Sofia Coppola has crafted her filmography. Go to Full Review Kristy Strouse Cinematic Lovelies 07/16/2023
With an impeccable cast and an assured vision from Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is an indelible cinematic landmark. Go to Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills 03/20/2023
Sofia Coppola’s first (and still best) feature... Go to Full Review Brian Susbielles InSession Film 02/22/2023
It was a tone-setter for Coppola in paving her own path as a director. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Katharina W @kathawillsee Jan 29 If you ever was a teenage girl I would definitely recommend you this one. It’s written in a full male perspective and it describes perfectly the mystification of women. Women or girls are a puzzle to solve and not a fully human being. If you ever was a teenage girl you might have felt the same way about yourself. That you live in a glasshouse and the people around you rather observe you than talk to you on eye level. I have the feeling that this film perfectly captures the feeling of that. But the narrator sits in front of the glasshouse and observes the mysterious and beautifully Lisbon-Girls. Would rather recommend the book though movie is still great. PS: amazing soundtrack from Air See more addy p @RT21433777 Nov 14 My absolute favorite movie. I feel like it shows how men view women as a whole very well, the movie is told from the boys POV, which is supposed to be sort of frustrating to the viewers, but this was what I believe, an amazing choice, their teenage girls, the boys are teenage boys, so the boys aren't going to tell the story like they understand, or feel bad, they just stereotype and dehumanize them. amazing director choice again from Sofia Coppola. See more Sofia P @RT34863779 Oct 17 I read the book for a Book Club, and I was a little dazzled. I was unsure if I understood the book at all, as well as if I liked it or not. A lot of pieces were missing. Sofia Coppola managed to direct a movie which, in my opinion, is better than the book, for the first time ever. She clarified some parts, and cancelled some other that were really absurd. See more Tanner S @kittywrld Aug 28 Am I missing something? because that was of the most boring thing I've ever watched. See more Gareth v @geewah Aug 7 Sofia Coppola’s debut feature is a dreamy, melancholy portrait of adolescence, repression, and the inabilty to fully understand others. It has it's flat spots, but overall this is a solid movie. See more Faiz D @RT95588871 May 13 Virgin Suicides is one of those films that make you feel unsatisfied and empty. It has an unbelievably mysterious and fascinating ending. Overall, a depressing, beautiful, incredibly subtle and deft cinematic exploration! See more Read all reviews
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Sofia Coppola

Director

James Woods

Mr. Lisbon

Kathleen Turner

Mrs. Lisbon

Kirsten Dunst

Lux Lisbon

Josh Hartnett

Trip Fontaine

Hanna Hall

Cecilia Lisbon

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Synopsis In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. A story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. It is at its core a mystery story: a heart-rending investigation into the impenetrable, life-altering secrets of American adolescence.
Director
Sofia Coppola
Producer
Francis Ford Coppola, Julie Costanzo, Dan Halsted, Chris Hanley
Screenwriter
Sofia Coppola, Jeffrey Eugenides
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Muse Productions, Eternity Productions, American Zoetrope
Rating
R (Thematic Elements)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 12, 1999, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 21, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$4.9M
Runtime
1h 37m
Sound Mix
Dolby Stereo, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Surround
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