The Virgin Suicides

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The Virgin Suicides

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1999

1h 37m

Drama

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In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. A story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. It is at its core a mystery story: a heart-rending investigation into the impenetrable, life-altering secrets of American adolescence.

Critics Consensus

The Virgin Suicides drifts with a dreamlike melancholy that may strike some audiences as tedious, but Sofia Coppola's feature debut is a mature meditation on disaffected youth.

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Sophie Mackintosh

New Statesman

07/26/2023

The film’s visual style is not in thrall to aestheticised despair, but best understood as an appreciation of the Lisbon girls themselves, a celebration of their lives, fairly unremarkable until they are not.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

03/27/2023

4/5

And yet a film set in suburban Michigan in 1975, about a quintet of teenage pre-Raphaelite enigmas who take their own lives, somehow remains dreamy and beguiling.

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Roxana Hadadi

Crooked Marquee

05/09/2020

The Virgin Suicides offers a glimpse into the murky unknowability of adolescence, and its legacy is tied to the portraits of femininity with which Sofia Coppola has crafted her filmography.

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Kristy Strouse

Cinematic Lovelies

07/16/2023

With an impeccable cast and an assured vision from Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is an indelible cinematic landmark.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

03/20/2023

Sofia Coppola’s first (and still best) feature...

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Brian Susbielles

InSession Film

02/22/2023

It was a tone-setter for Coppola in paving her own path as a director.

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Briana I.

@Anaire 2d

I found this movie to very boring and though it had depth it felt empty at the same time. I can't understand or relate to this in any capacity and kept waiting for it to get good. Very weird film.

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Gus L

@RT25340737 Apr 14

I guess they just couldn't be bothered to figure out the ending.

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JJ P.

@RT58063070 Apr 7

LOVED. was so interesting, got bored at one point in the movie around halfway but passed that one part it was beyond interesting. definitely recommended

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Katharina W

@kathawillsee Jan 29

If you ever was a teenage girl I would definitely recommend you this one. It’s written in a full male perspective and it describes perfectly the mystification of women. Women or girls are a puzzle to solve and not a fully human being. If you ever was a teenage girl you might have felt the same way about yourself. That you live in a glasshouse and the people around you rather observe you than talk to you on eye level. I have the feeling that this film perfectly captures the feeling of that. But the narrator sits in front of the glasshouse and observes the mysterious and beautifully Lisbon-Girls. Would rather recommend the book though movie is still great. PS: amazing soundtrack from Air

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addy p

@RT21433777 Nov 14

My absolute favorite movie. I feel like it shows how men view women as a whole very well, the movie is told from the boys POV, which is supposed to be sort of frustrating to the viewers, but this was what I believe, an amazing choice, their teenage girls, the boys are teenage boys, so the boys aren't going to tell the story like they understand, or feel bad, they just stereotype and dehumanize them. amazing director choice again from Sofia Coppola.

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Sofia P

@RT34863779 Oct 17

I read the book for a Book Club, and I was a little dazzled. I was unsure if I understood the book at all, as well as if I liked it or not. A lot of pieces were missing. Sofia Coppola managed to direct a movie which, in my opinion, is better than the book, for the first time ever. She clarified some parts, and cancelled some other that were really absurd.

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In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. A story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. It is at its core a mystery story: a heart-rending investigation into the impenetrable, life-altering secrets of American adolescence.

Director: Sofia Coppola
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola, Julie Costanzo, Dan Halsted, Chris Hanley
Screenwriter: Sofia Coppola, Jeffrey Eugenides
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Muse Productions, Eternity Productions, American Zoetrope
Rating: R (Thematic Elements)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 12, 1999, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 21, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.9M
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Surround