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The Virgin Suicides [DVD] [2000]
enlarge	Director: Sofia Coppola Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Michael Paré Studio: Pathe Distribution Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy Used: £1.31 as of 23/11/2009 01:54 GMT details You Save: £11.68 (90%) New (17) Used (22) from £1.31 Seller: dabsales Rating: 50 reviews Sales Rank: 4746 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 DVD Layers: 2 DVD Sides: 1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 93 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060002830499 ASIN: B00004YN6Q Theatrical Release Date: May 12, 2000 Release Date: December 4, 2000 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Sophia Coppola's alternately dreamy and unsettling film about five suburban sisters who all mysteriously kill themselves (the voice-over tells you as much in the first five minutes) casts a witchy spell that lingers like drugstore perfume on a hot day. Beautifully adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides' icily perfect inovel/i (perhaps the best, if not only, work of fiction narrated exclusively in the first-person plural), the 1970s-set film is constructed as the collective memory of the neighbourhood boys who worshipped the beautiful Lisbon girls, blonde sylph-like teen siblings whose beauty and self-destruction still haunts and perplexes the narrators, now grown men. pWhy did they do it? Maybe because their Catholic mother (Kathleen Turner, magnificently clenched) locked them all up when near-youngest daughter Lux (the exquisite Kirsten Dunst) stayed out all night after the prom. Maybe it was due to a kind of pubertal feminine hysteria, set off by the first suicide of the youngest daughter Cecilia. Maybe they were infected by a more general malaise (the film fairly teams with images of dying elm trees, infested lakes and fetid nastiness). Or maybe they will just never know what it's like, in the words of Cecilia, to be a 13-year-old girl. pCoppola has a canny eye for 1970s kitsch and the tawdry, touching magic totems of girlhood (tampons, bright bikinis, half-used make-up) and coaxes terrific deadpan performances both from the younger cast and the veterans. (James Woods as the nerdy Lisbon patriarch is as delightfully cast against type as Turner.) For all the languid gloom, there is great wit in the observation of 1970s decor and playful touches abound: airbrushed flashbacks like vintage Timotei commercials; inserts to reveal Lux has the name of her date magic markered on her knickers; teeth and eyes that sparkle unnaturally with post-production tricks. The isoundtrack/i hits just the right wistful ironic note with a mix of period tunes by Todd Rungren, Gilbert O'Sullivan and the like, complemented by the electronica of French pop band Air (whose standalone efforts for the film are also available on a iseparate CD/i. A film as unforgettable as first love. --ILeslie Felperin/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 50 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...10 Next » words cannot express the beauty... August 13, 2003 15 out of 17 found this review helpful ...of this film. Being a teenager, i can understand how my review may not be helpful in convincing you to buy this. But hear me out anyway. Firstly, who watches the credits all the way through on movies? very few i'd imagine. This was the first movie that i watched all the credits for, simply because i couldn't move, it was one of the purest, most beautiful and unapologetic films i have ever seen in my life.br In a similar way to American Beauty and Pulp Fiction, the film isn't really about anything in terms of epic story, but is simply about the lives of the characters, and their emotions (anyone who says that human lives have a plot is obviously lying) and thus touches you all the more through its lack of story in the traditional sense.br I do apologise but i must cut my review short as someone else neeeds to use the phone line. Buy this film people, it is all i can say. cool directing debut February 21, 2002 jmjmr316@aol.com (UK.) 16 out of 19 found this review helpful The Virgin Suicides Cert 15brDirector: Sofia CoppolabrStars: Hannah Hall, James Woods, Josh HartnetbrKathleen Turner, Kirsten DunstpIn corners of second hand video shops are scores of videos that although Critically acclaimed, and coveted by Hardened film collectors. They lay largely undiscovered by most of the general public and if, The Virgin Suicides a directorial debut from Sophia Coppola, shares this fate it will be one of the greatest travesties in film making history.pBeautifully directed, this film relies on narration in the same way as Stand By Me and American Beauty and far from being a distraction the dialogue enhances and enriches the visuals.brThe Story is set in typical American Suburban neighbourhood. In particular it focuses on the tragic circumstances surrounding the Suicides of five sisters, as seen through the eyes of the boys who live opposite. Oppressed by an over protective mother (Turner) and understandably affected by the suicide of 13 year old sister Cecilia (Hanna Hall) the Lisbon girls future is almost certainly sealed when, Lux (Kirsten Dunst) has an ill fated one night stand with High school heartthrob Trip Fontaine. As a result Mrs Lisbon locks the girls up behind closed doors, which leads to their tragic, yet inevitable deaths. The casting is spot on with excellent supporting roles from the ever-dependable James Woods playing the apologetic father and high School teacher,'Mr Lisbon' and in Mrs Lisbon Coppola has almost rediscovered Kathleen Turner who stars as the sometimes-neurotic mother of the tragic girls, in one of her finest roles since The War Of The Roses.brThis Film is a modern Classic, adapted sensitively, from Jeffrey Eugenides novel, and is almost Shakespearean in its delivery. Although largely unnoticed as an actress, Sophia Coppola has found her niche in directing and could go on to be as renowned as her father the great Francis Ford Coppola. A stunning Film February 11, 2001 nickreeves@tinyworld.co.uk (London) 7 out of 8 found this review helpful This film, along with the book by Jeffrey Eugenides, and the soundtrack by Air, have had me captivated for almost a year now. There is just something so amazing about the simplicity and excellence of the story, and Kirsten Dunst gives a brilliant performance as the rebel daughter, Lux. The way that this memorable film was done is sheer perfection. Coppola has inherited all the skill of her father. The beautiful, evocative music to accompany an equally moving film, almost brought me to tears. I would also recommend the book to those who haven't already read it. This film will still be talked about in years to come, as it is a classic of our day. A brilliant insight to a teenagers life, and the traumas of it too. I can not find the words to say how this left me feeling, but it will always be with me. ATTENTION CULT FOLLWERS! March 14, 2006 L.S (Bradford, West Yorkshire) 16 out of 20 found this review helpful This film has all the makings of a cult classic! I suppose you already know the jist of the story so I will give you the lowdown...brIf you are one of these strange people (like me) who likes depressive weird films for example Donnie Darko, American Beauty etc THIS IS THE FILM FOR YOU!brDont get me wrong the film is fantastically shot with a late summer feel to it and beautiful scenes and a chill out soundtrack.brIt normal at times and then can get a bit weird, however the film will grab your emotions and at the end make you think. It is hard to describe this film so try it out and see it for yourself! top marks. First off... February 16, 2004 V. J. K. Lamburn (Worthing, WS, England) 4 out of 5 found this review helpful This film was so striking, having read Jeffrey Eugenides#8217; original, this had a lot to live up to, and that it did. I was numbed by its searing depicition of the five girls, so much so I could not cry until it was over, and when it did, I cried in fits.pCoppola has really excelled here in her directing debut, somewhat uncanny as I believe this was Eugenides#8217; debut publication too. The filming is wonderful, the setting plush and green, but in that lays great tradgedy, and this film portrays it in its purest form, I could not and can not walk away from this film and indeed the book without feeling somehow personally touched and effected by it.pIn a way - it reminds me of my early teens (now 20) and that perhaps touches me in a way I can relate to. In all honesty, I feel lost for words; all I cay say is if you have or have not read the book, do buy this DVD and tell me honestly you were not touched deeply, one to have the tissues ready for.pCompulsive viewing. Showing reviews 1-5 of 50 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...10 Next »

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