‘Priscilla’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Piercingly Authentic Inside Drama About the Troubled Love Story of Priscilla and Elvis Presley
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The last time Sofia Coppola made a movie about a teenage royal living in a rococo palace that turned out to be a lavish prison, it was 2006, and the movie, “Marie Antoinette,” was a stylized dream of history — the story of the young queen as naïve and isolated rock star.
Coppola’s new movie dramatizes the relationship between Priscilla and Elvis Presley, and the parallels with the earlier film are there if you want to see them.
This time, though, Coppola goes in the opposite direction, working with a casually meticulous docudrama authenticity. In the 17 years since “Marie Antoinette,” she has grown as a filmmaker — her storytelling now has an organic detail and emotional precision that sweep you right up.
Last year’s Elvis Presley biopic was called “Elvis.” The book that the new movie is based on was “Elvis and Me.” But Coppola’s film is called, simply, “Priscilla,” and that cues us to something essential: that the movie, while you could describe it as a love story, is not going to be told from a dual point-of-view.
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