Review: Somewhere, a film by Sofia Coppola

When I reviewed Bong Joon-ho's latest film Mother a couple of weeks ago I compared his effort with Flaubert's Bovarian attempt at creating a work of art sustained solely on its style. I should have reserved that comment for Sofia Coppola, for this is precisely what she attains in Somewhere, her sleek, exquisite latest film.

In Somewhere Coppola revisits the subject of seclusive celebrity she had so brilliantly approached in her sophomore film effort Lost in Translation, but relocates the action from remote Tokyo to the legendary Chateau Marmont in LA. In fact, one might argue, there has been no thematic hiatus between these two films, since the undervalued Marie Antoinette was, for all its pink cakes and offbeat rock music, nothing else but a film about royal boredom.

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SOFIA COPPOLA'S SOMEWHERE TO OPEN IN DECEMBER

Sofia Coppola's much anticipated fourth long feature Somewhere is now completed and the trailer is already available. Somewhere tells the story of an idle actor (Stephen Dorff) enjoying la Dolce Vita until he receives the unexpected visit of her 11-year-old daughter, played by Elle Fanning. The story is mainly set in the (in)famous Chateau Marmont, which is a good omen for the film after Coppola's terrific use of Tokyo's Park Hyatt Hotel in her 2003 critically acclaimed Lost in Translation.

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