Sofia Coppola’s new film about Priscilla Presley is earning rave reviews. The biopic, based on 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, by the ex-wife of Elvis Presley, had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. READ MORE: Emotional Priscilla Presley Gets A Hug From Sofia Coppola After Biopic Screening At Venice Film Festival Starring Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla and Jacob Elordi as Elvis, the film tells the story of how the iconic couple first met and fell in love, as well as their tumultuous marriage.
Writing for IndieWire, critic David Ehrlich praised Coppola for taking a “soft and muted” approach to the material, in contrast to the “orgiastic blockbuster” the was Baz Lurhmann’s 2022 biopic “Elvis”.
Little White Lies critic Hannah Strong, who also wrote the 2022 book Sofia Coppola: Forever Young, described “Priscilla” as “a melancholy fairy tale about first love and enduring mythology,” adding that Spaeny possesses “a grace and interiority that defines Coppola’s characters.” Stephanie Zacharek, her her review for Time, wrote, “Spaeny gives such an intimate, lived-in performance that some viewers may not think it’s enough.
That’s because she’s playing Priscilla as an observer, a young woman who gradually sees what’s wrong with her life and her screwed-up partner, but who, by the movie’s end, can barely reckon with what’s happened to her over the past 10 years.
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