Summary
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla receives a extremely promising 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and a seven-minute standing ovation on the Venice Film Festival. Critics reward Coppola for capturing Priscilla Presley’s story with measured perception, presenting a delicate and non-judgmental portrait of a younger lady awakening to actuality amid love, fantasy, and fame. Cailee Spaeny’s portrayal of Priscilla is counseled for its power and conveying the character’s slow-motion melancholy.
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla premiered Monday on the Venice Film Festival and critics have now launched their early evaluations of the biographical drama. Priscilla, based mostly on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, particulars the movie’s topic’s life with ex-husband Elvis Presley, from their assembly to their marriage and 1973 divorce. The A24 movie stars Cailee Spaeny because the titular Priscilla and Jacob Elordi as Elvis. Priscilla at the moment boasts a massively promising 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, from 22 evaluations, and the movie additionally acquired a seven-minute standing ovation on the pageant. The early overwhelming optimistic reception factors at one other hit for the Academy Award-winning director.
Richard Lawson, from Vanity Fair, commends Coppola’s efforts in capturing Presley’s story, writing:
“She desires to honor a lady’s reminiscences whereas additionally being clear-eyed about what had been some fairly alarming circumstances. It’s a problem she greets with measured perception; Priscilla is neither lurid nor sugar coated. It’s a delicate, if slight, have a look at a younger lady rousing from a dream and confronting waking life.”
Priscilla particulars Presley’s first assembly with the King of Rock and Roll. When she is barely 14 years outdated, she is approached by a person who asks her if she desires to satisfy Elvis. Somehow, her dad and mom are satisfied to permit {the teenager} to satisfy the 24-year-old musician and actor, which marks the start this portrait of affection, fantasy, and fame.
According to critics, Coppola’s portrayal would not move judgment on these occasions however relatively simply lays them out for audiences to view. Nicholas Barber, from the BBC, writes:
“Some viewers will discover Coppola’s restraint irritating – I typically have prior to now. Instead of turning Priscilla’s life story into an extreme cautionary story or an empowering feminist fable, she has sketched a cool, non-judgemental portrait of somebody who’s a passive observer of her personal existence. Perhaps the movie may have accomplished with a little bit extra dialog and a little bit extra motion, however it’s nonetheless a quietly affecting, sympathetic tribute to the form of one that is a supporting character in most biopics.”
“An impeccable union of director and topic,” writes David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter, whereas The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw provides, “This movie says an important deal about Elvis and the dysfunctional enterprise he was in and Priscilla’s modest integrity and braveness.”
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Praise for Cailee Spaeny & Jacob Elordi
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Priscilla Presley herself attended Priscilla’s premiere on Monday and spoke concerning the movie from her seat within the viewers throughout a panel. She was emotional as she stated “it was very tough” to look at the film, however praised Coppola’s efforts, noting that “Sofia did an incredible job. She did her homework.” While Coppola earned loads of early acclaim, Spaeny’s portrayal has additionally acquired its share of accolades.
Variety’s Owen Glieberman writes:
“Cailee Spaeny makes Priscilla a determine of power, however the pressure of her efficiency is how she enacts Priscilla’s slow-motion melancholy, connecting the viewers proper as much as what it’s prefer to be in love with somebody who seems to be a gaslighting freak. When she lastly liberates herself, it’s like she’s waking up from a dream.”
According to The Film Verdict’s Alonso Duralde:
“Spaeny captivates all through — Priscilla learns when to stay silent, and Spaeny’s eyes convey volumes inside these silences — and he or she’s matched by Elordi, who captures the magnetism and the occasional monstrousness of the celebrity with out caricature.”
Written, directed and co-produced by Sofia Coppola, and starring Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Domińczyk, Jorja Cadence, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, and Luke Humphrey, Priscilla is because of hit theaters on October 27, 2023.
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