SOFIA COPPOLA: FOREVER YOUNG

This illustrated critical survey of the Academy Award winning writer and director s career covering everything from her groundbreaking music videos through her latest films is a must have for fans Sofia Coppola offers a rich and intimate look at the overarching stylistic and thematic components of Coppola s work It engages with her creative output while celebrating her talent as an image maker and storyteller In addition to critical essays about Coppola s filmography the book includes interviews with some of her closest collaborators including musician Jean Benoît Dunckel and costume designer Nancy Steiner along with a foreword by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher Along the way readers meet again a cast of characters mired in the ennui of missed connections loneliness frustrated creativity rebellious adolescence and the double edged knife of celebrity all captured by the emotional intimate power of the female gaze In the two decades since her first feature film was released Sofia Coppola has created a tonally diverse meticulously crafted and unapologetically hyperfeminine aesthetic across a wide range of multimedia work Her films explore untenable relationships and the euphoria and heartbreak these entail and Coppola develops these themes deftly a