Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 94
Fresh: 71 | Rotten: 23
Sofia's successful directorial debut lies in the movie's compelling story and the actors' genuine emotions.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 1
Sofia's successful directorial debut lies in the movie's compelling story and the actors' genuine emotions.
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A dark comedy punctuated by moments of drama, The Virgin Suicides explores the emotional underpinnings of a family starting to come apart at the seams in 1970's Midwestern America. The Lisbons seem like an ordinary enough family; Father (James Woods) teaches math at a high school in Michigan, Mother (Kathleen Turner) has a strong religious faith, and they have five teenage daughters, ranging from 13-year-old Cecilia (Hannah Hall) to 17-year-old Therese (Leslie Hayman). However, the Lisbon
Apr 21, 2000 Wide
Dec 19, 2000
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (94) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (23) | DVD (22)
Sofia Coppola tackles the issue of teenage suicide with an assured treatment in The Virgin Suicides, effectively employing a seriocomic tone.
A very curious and eclectic piece of work.
A lovely, luminous dream.
Tragic, haunting, and sometimes darkly comedic, this movie leaves a strong impression in its telling of a story about the destruction of innocence.
A weird and glorious tribute to ephemera of every possible sort.
Worth seeing.
Intense, imperfect movie about teen suicide.
Sofia Coppola's compelling, ethereal fable about adolescent loss of innocence is claustrophobic and uncomfortable, but profoundly affecting and gently funny. "The Virgin Suicides" advises teen years are sometimes best remembered as a long-ago vacation.
Sofia Coppola's adaptation of Jeffery Eugenides' 1993 novel plays like a sweet, sad dream.
It's yet another case of blame-the-parents, and, more precisely, blame-the-overprotective-mother.
An assured feature debut, this darkly humorous exploration of a tough subject benefits from an original narrative and the fact that the appealing cast consists of actors who are the same age as the characters they play.
The strongest directorial debut of the year.
The tone of wistful regret and longing doesn't preclude a good deal of gentle humour. It's a restrained, subtly suggestive piece which disintegrates if you try to get a fix on it.
A rather stunted and sliggish exercise in style whose sporadically haunting visual quality doesn't make up for its shallowness and ponderous pace.
A stellar debut feature from Sofia Coppola and it's a must see.
Concentration on either the writing or the direction, but not both, may have spawned a better film from first-timer Sofia C.
Mergulhando com sensibilidade na amargura do universo adolescente, com seus anseios e frustraçőes, Coppola estréia de forma memorável na direçăo.
A disarmingly poetic - and specifically female - vision of adolescence that it belongs in a category of its own.
Coppola's direction engagingly avoids the coming-of-age cliches and the film boasts an excellent performance from Kirsten Dunst.
Black comedy has never looked so good.
If missteps hold the film back from achieving the full grandeur it aims for, there is no denying the way it conjures a magic-realist American suburbia, rarely before brought so convincingly to life.
If [Coppola's] debut film is any indication, talent does run in the family -- even if it is a somewhat disjointed talent.
In the end, the strengths of the movie are overwhelmed by what is pretentious, unplugged and boring to boot.
Josh Hartnetts hair is messed up in every movee ive seen him and then he doesnt wanna brush it so he shaves his head in black hawk down
September 12, 2008Super Reviewer
Beautiful direction, a haunting (and unexpectedly humorous) script, and solid performances make "The Vigin Suicides" an affecting drama about the dangers of being sheltered and suppressed, despite a slow moving middle section.
July 24, 2011Super Reviewer
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