'Priscilla' review roundup: Critics hail Sofia Coppola film as 'eerily gripping' – India Today
Sophia Coppola directorial Priscilla premiered on the eightieth Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant to rave critiques. Critics have hailed the movie tailored from the memoir Elvis and Me, written by Priscilla in 1985.
PRISCILLA IS WINNING RAVE REVIEWS
It at the moment holds an astounding ranking of 95 per cent based mostly of twenty-two critiques. The essential consensus reads, “When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a celebration, the person who’s already a meteoric rock-and-roll celebrity turns into somebody fully surprising in non-public moments: an exhilarating crush, an ally in loneliness, a susceptible finest good friend. By means of Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen facet of an amazing American delusion in Elvis and Priscilla’s lengthy courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German military base to his dream-world property at Graceland, on this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of affection, fantasy, and fame.”
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The Guardian described it as an ‘eerily gripping’ film because it wrote, “Little one bride, toddler sacrifice, bobbysoxer concubine: Priscilla Presley, spouse of Elvis, is all these in Sofia Coppola’s eerily gripping, queasily claustrophobic portrait of marital loneliness, trapped behind the kitschy jail gates of Graceland whereas the King is away on tour, or capturing films with glamorous worldly feminine co-stars and a creepily subservient male entourage.”
AN EXHILARATING WATCH
Rogert Ebert stated that the film honours the writer’s perspective: “Coppola’s film, written by the director and based mostly on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, honors the writer by giving us her perspective. And whereas latter-day concerns of Presley’s habits in courting, or one may say capturing, Priscilla are replete with condemnations of how creepy it was—the phrase “groomer” is tossed round, and in some particular methods seen right here, it’s completely apt—from the viewpoint of a dreamy, distracted Austin Texas lady removed from residence the eye of this very shy celebrity is exhilarating.”
In the meantime, Selection said in its evaluate, “Coppola, who wrote and directed “Priscilla,” tells this story with open eyes, in order that we’re caught up, for some time, within the otherworldly entrancement of what it could imply to have the most important star on the planet select you to be his princess.”
Starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elrodi, Priscilla will launch on October 27, 2023.
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