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Cinema of the Bored and Apathetic

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (20)

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The trailer for Sofia Copolla’s Somewhere — starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning — is out now. Whether you like it (and the movie, presumably) probably will depend on what you thought of Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides, as Somewhere looks very similar tonally. I’d suggest that the storyline — or the thematic meandering — also looks similar to Lost in Translation, only instead of a young girl and an older man, Somewhere follows a father and his daughter. I might submit, however, that Stephen Dorff is no Bill Murray (although, I give the edge to Elle Fanning over Scarlett Johansson).

In other words, the movie will either worm its way into your soul like cinematic mist, or it will bore the ever-living crap out of you. It could go either way, really.










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Comments

"Virgin suicide" is one of my fav movies and i feel a strong alchemy between the actors so i wait this movie

Posted by: caro at June 15, 2010 6:27 PM

I give the edge to Elle Fanning over Scarlett Johansson

Nope, being as Ms. Fanning is too young to pull off a proper pantie scene.

Just Sayin'

Posted by: Rykker at June 15, 2010 6:34 PM

Nice trailer. Very nice, in fact. I shall be pre-booking my ticket.

Posted by: SB at June 15, 2010 7:02 PM

It kinda makes me laugh how Dakota Fanning grew up so the movie studios just gave Elle Fanning a promotion to the New Dakota Fanning. (not a criticism, maybe she's a perfectly good actress, just an observation)

Posted by: vic9 at June 15, 2010 7:06 PM

Rykker makes a good point....

As for the film.
Well, Sophia Coppola is one of my Irrationals. She is a terrible, terrible 'film maker' who passes off slow to focus long shots as artistic skill and produces film after film about young girls with daddy issues. Also they get up to fun quirky stuff in hotels.
Like, we get it Sophia. Maybe talk to your shrink about your less than normal childhood with your dad.

Saying that...Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning are literally 2 of my favourite actors OF ALL TIME and I can not get over how beautiful the Fanning sisters are growing up to be, and how mature and well adjusted they seem.
I don't think I'll pay to see this movie.
I don't think I'll even buy or rent the DVD. I might borrow it from a friend or get it on a sneaky download but ultimately, FUCK YOU SOPHIA COPPOLA.

Posted by: Nadine at June 15, 2010 7:08 PM

This looks really sweet and touching and the two lead actors seem to have great chemistry. Besides, I loved Sofia Coppola's previous films. So yeah, I'll be there. :)

Posted by: Linda at June 15, 2010 7:11 PM

There's another Fanning? Feckin' Hell. How long until this infestation 'graces' us with a doe-eyed remake of Birth of a Nation? And then some dumbass fuckwit will say 'Omg, blackface was like, so long ago, wtf the wtf, just get over it.' Fuckwits. Ugh, and they can get that awful Miranda July to direct. And we'll all slap our fins together about the 'brave' performances displaying a talent that proves the kids are 'mature beyond their years' and the featured loss of innocence will be a 'tour de force, with the gauziest, most dreamlike and whisper-soft rapings you'll see this fortnight.' The new protagonist will be named Sorrow after Tess of the D'Urbervilles--her departed mother's favourite book. She never got to read it with her daughter because the mater died in some bat-shit freak quirking accident, or she free-spirited herself off of some fjord or some manner of wack-ass wackness. Her DISTANT AND EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE father bestows the name 'Sorrow' on her (dual significance, *PING*) and she's always felt guilty about some crap. He doesn't hate her because he sees her mother in her, he loves her for it, and he WORRIES. Lap it up capons, lap it up. So damned dumb. And since all shit is quirky, her fascination with her own belly button makes her accident-prone, so she wears chopinettes to get her to regular people eye-level. Then, I don't know, her...friend...dies, or something, and the kid pulls a Vachel Lindsay, and it'll be stupid, vapid, shallow, pandering, boring, downright insulting, a WASP-y (lapsed 'P'), cardigan and beard centric ode to the idealized cipher mumble-maidens of the world (looks like a boy, menstruates like a girl, acts like a tweaking toddler), and it'll get nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Negro Bluesman in a Supporting Role to a White Kid (yeah, redundant), but it'll win for Best Non-Existent Job Occupation. Some person works in a panda beauty salon, but his dream is to open a marmoset spa. Awww, that's not cloying. It'll be stupider than a cockatrice feast in a financial district and it'll be the same self-indulgent, self-important piss-ass crap that turns people into marked pariahs for not worshipping at its shrine. And then you'll watch it again after years of hype and backlash cycles pass, and you'll think, 'Wow, we were some Olympic-calibre idiots for letting this refuse escape the iron lung'.

Bring me the head of Sam Mendes. No prizes for the courier, but unending scorn for those who don't do it. There's your impetus, so if you're not going to contribute to the cause, just leave me with my shadows!

...and tread peacefully.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at June 15, 2010 8:33 PM

Wow. Usually, I can follow Besser's comments, but that one lost be a few miles back.

If Besser and Adventureman ever went comment-schizo at the same time...I don't think the site would survive.

Posted by: Vermillion at June 15, 2010 8:46 PM

Yup, this looks like my type of film.

BTW, holy crap did she grow up! The last time I remember seeing her was when she was talking about voicing a character in Tonari no Totoro, with Dakota.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKqJyklKkXw

Posted by: JapJay at June 15, 2010 8:49 PM

I'm too sexy for Milan, New York and Bellevue.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at June 15, 2010 8:50 PM

I may have gotten lost in her comment, but:

Some person works in a panda beauty salon, but his dream is to open a marmoset spa.

That made me laugh hard. First, any mention of pandas + Pajiba = hilarity ensues; second, I think I want to open a marmoset spa. Awww!

Posted by: MM at June 15, 2010 8:59 PM

Well, you can techincally still stage the production, but until you've cracked open a few dozen marmosets, is it REALLY Equus?

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at June 15, 2010 9:31 PM

Ahhh, fuck it, I love Sophia Coppola's movies. I even liked Marie Antoinette, which everyone I know hated. I will definitely see this. And I love the slower, mellower version of that Strokes song they used in the trailer.

Posted by: kate at June 15, 2010 10:02 PM

Ak! I actually really like Sophia Coppola, and I *loves* me some Stephen Dorff. Know nothing about Fanning minor, but she seems good in the trailer. Don't know if I'll get around to watching this in cinema, but I'll definitely watch it.

Posted by: koj at June 16, 2010 12:31 AM

I adore Coppola, so yes, I shall be seeing this one.

Posted by: Hannah at June 16, 2010 5:03 AM

uh. no, thx.

Posted by: splinter at June 16, 2010 7:01 AM

it's already my favorite movie of the year. long live sofia and each and every one of her daddy issues!
ps: elle fanning is growing up into a goddess...

Posted by: lionel bitchie at June 16, 2010 7:13 AM

I guess I'm one of those peeps who enjoys Sofia Coppola's films. Sometimes, especially on a rainy day, meandering films are the only thing I'm in the mood for, and Ms Coppola does meandering better than most. I also enjoy photography, and her films seem like a collection of photographs. That said, I understand why many people find her stuff boring and pretentious. I suppose it is both of those things, but I like it just the same.

Also, I think this trailer looks lovely and I'll definitely see the movie.

Posted by: lucy at June 16, 2010 10:15 AM

And this film is about ... what? Absolutely nothing? Okay, thanks. I'll pass.

Posted by: Hybrid at June 16, 2010 10:34 AM

I'm with Nadine, Paragraph 1.

Let's be honest, would she really be allowed anywhere near a director's chair if her name were not Coppola?

I admit to liking Marie Antionette because it was like an extended Adam Ant video from the 1980s.

Posted by: PaddyDog at June 16, 2010 1:01 PM