Throughout her career, director Sofia Coppola has managed to depict and visualize loneliness in a way that few other filmmakers ever have. Sometimes she does it by physically sectioning her characters off from the outside world, like the titular group of girls in The Virgin Suicides, who desperately wish to break out from the confines of their constrictive home. Other times, Coppola has done it by planting her introverted leads in the center of noisy metropolitan areas, like in Lost in Translation or Somewhere. But in all of her past films, Coppola’s characters are separated, either literally or physically, stuck in a stasis that only ever allows them to look out at the world, and wonder why it’s seemingly so easy for everyone else to live in it.
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