Words Lee Curtis

A little over a year after Baz Luhrmann’s bombastic biopic brought the King to the big screen, Elvis is back in the building, but the new film from Academy Award-winner Sofia Coppola presents the story as seen through the eyes of Elvis’ wife, Priscilla.

Where Luhrmann’s film faced criticism for glossing over the problematic aspects of their relationship, Coppola tackles them head on in a warts-and-all portrayal of their rocky romance. Based on Priscilla’s bestselling memoir Elvis And Me, the film follows their relationship from the moment a teenage girl meets the man of her dreams through their subsequent, turbulent years of marriage and onto its bitter end.

With the spotlight on Priscilla, a lot falls on the shoulders of the film’s star Cailee Spaeny. Yet the rising star appears pitch perfect as the fourteen-year-old whose whisked from Germany to Graceland where she’s caught in a trap of superstardom and a world of manipulation, suspicion, and addiction

 An equally tough task faces her co-star Jacob Elordi, who must follow Austin Butler’s astonishing, BAFTA-winning transformation to portray the King, but the Euphoria star slips into the blue suede shoes with ease in this fascinating look at the darker side of Elvis.

Girls On Film

With a distinct style and catalogue of female- centric films, Sofia Coppola is perfectly suited to translating Priscilla’s story for the screen.

Marie Antoinette

Kirsten Dunst stars as the ill-fated French queen in a cult-classic period drama, which Coppola now connects to Priscilla where a young woman comes of ages in tough circumstances, only two-hundred years later and with Graceland in place of revolutionary France.

Lost In Translation

A brief encounter in Tokyo blossoms into an unlikely holiday romance between Bill Murray's fading movie star and Scarlet Johansson's young college grad in Coppola's tender, mature romcom.

The Bling Ring

Cult of celebrity is at the heart of Coppola’s retelling of the true story of fame-obsessed teens who burgle celebrity homes starring Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, and Israel Broussard.