SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

rlavender4 Cinematography/Direction: 9/10 I'm always impressed with Coppola's directing. During the lighter parts of the movie there's a sense of mischievousness that shines through the camerawork. Somber colors and lighting are also employed to full effect when the tragedies strike.Acting: 7/10 nothing really stood out to me as either amazing or horrible. Script: 7/10 It was fine. I didn't love that the story was told from the neighbor boys' perspectives, (Stand By Me style). I didn't like that their voyeurism was normalized. Music: 7/10 I think I heard some original score in there but the soundtrack was mostly just well chosen 70's hits. I really enjoyed that Heart songs were used to introduce/develop Trip's character.Summary: Overall this was a well made film. The surreal tenor that ruled many scenes felt fresh and fun.

big-gun I was initially drawn to this movie by James Woods. He's been my favorite actor for many years. Then the story drew me in further.The five beautiful Lisbon sisters are living in a virtual prison run by their fanatically religious parents (Woods, Kathleen Turner). Things go from bad to worse when one of the girls commits suicide.Josh Hartnett was pretty fresh off his very solid performance in The Faculty. Here he plays Trip Fontaine, a school football player. Kirsten Dunst plays Lux Lisbon, the object of his affection. When Trip and three friends manage to get permission to take the sisters to the homecoming dance, this is when things take a little turn for the bizarre. Lux arrives home way after curfew and their parents, particularly their mother, lock them down even tighter.The scene I found the most touching was the girls and the boys communicating by phone using records to say what they wanted to say. The story was set in 1974 so yes, records.On the whole, the movie was a real downer. No happy ending for anyone. As I write this, I've not read the book, so I have no basis for comparison there. I will say that the time I spent watching this movie was time well spent. The actors turned in top flight performances and Sofia Coppola's career as a movie director flew out of the gate with this movie.

Irishchatter This film is such a tearjerker and gives you a whole amount of fear for these girls because their parents were such religious control freaks. It was really awful to see the sisters die one by one especially Kirsten Dunst's character Lux Lisbon.Now at the beginning, I thought the parents were just ordinary folk wanting for the daughters to do well in school. However as the movie goes on, you would really be more scared for the girls sake. I say the father and mother beat them up too as well as burning some of their stuff.Lets just say, I'm glad this is a fiction movie!

Lambysalamby I came to this film being a huge fan of Sofia Coppola's other film Lost in Translation. Lost in Translation is a 10/10 picture for me and one of my favourite films ever, so I went into her first film The Virgin Suicides with high hopes..It's about a year or so since I have seen it, and while writing this review, I must express that I was initially disappointed expecting more, even dismissing the film as a little boring....However, the film kept coming back into my thoughts afterwards and I can still recall vividly the opening shots of the film accompanied by what I now consider to be one of the greatest soundtracks ever made, by the French duo: AIR. Using their music for the film was in my view, a genius choice from Coppola.I will never underestimate the power of a soundtrack in a movie and neither should you. Take for Example: John Caprenter's Halloween. The film test screened to audiences without the infamous score and the test audiences thought it was a bad film, you know what it became with the score in place, an outright classic. Music can be just important as great cinematography..I certainly took away the soundtrack from the Virgin Suicides, I was listening to the whole album regularly. Then slowly but surely parts of the film crept back in to my thoughts, the beautiful cinematography, the great performances, the wonder. The soundtrack and the film are intrinsically linked. I look forward to seeing it again, knowing I will definitely enjoy it more than the first time round.. It's definitely a grower...