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Sofia Coppola

 

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Director / Screenwriter / Actor / Producer
1971 -
Born May 14, New York, New York, USA
Key Production Country: USA 
Key Genres: Period Film, Drama, Comedy Drama
Key Collaborators: Kirsten Dunst (Leading Player), Ross Katz (Producer), Lance Acord (Cinematographer), Sarah Flack (Editor), K.K. Barrett (Production Designer), Giovanni Ribisi (Character Player)
Highly Recommended: Lost in Translation (2003)
Recommended: The Virgin Suicides (1999), Marie Antoinette (2006)
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Lost in Translation (2003)
 
Lost in Translation (2003)The Virgin Suicides (1999)Marie Antoinette (2006)
 
     
  "Sofia's spare style could hardly be more different from the baroque grandiloquence of her father. And yet she has taken from him the risky art of personal film-making, of working out the big issues of her life in her movies, of just going ahead and doing it, even when you're not sure what "it" is. If The Virgin Suicides distilled the hopeless longings of adolescence to their essence, Lost in Translation is about how the most unexpected, even temporary human bonds can make you take stock and grow up." - Ella Taylor (The Guardian, 2003)  
     
  "So far, she has succeeded on her own terms and in her quietly confident way, defining some kind of hazy-youth cultural drift, the somnambulance of a generation raised on style, ironic pastiche and disengagement. How long that moment will last is anyone's guess but, thus far, Sofia Coppola is its most distinctive arbiter. " - Sean O'Hagan (The Observer, 2006)  
     
  "As the daughter of venerated filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola faced a sizable challenge establishing her own identity as a director when she first started making feature films in 1999. Since then, she has not only emerged from the shadow of her famous father, but become a standard-bearer for quality and integrity in the moviemaking industry." - Todd Gilchrist (IGN, 2006)  
     
  "Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic." - Sofia Coppola  
     
 
 

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