{"id":34360,"date":"2020-06-03T22:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=34360"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:26:27","slug":"virgin-suicides-or-the-spleen-of-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/virgin-suicides-or-the-spleen-of-lisbon\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abVirgin Suicides, or the Lisbon spleen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinema Wednesdays - Special edition:\u00a0Sofia Coppola<\/a>\u00a0- <\/em>Kelly Lambiel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being the \u00abson of\u00bb is a double-edged calling card. Doors open, but either you make your own name, or you stick a label on yourself. To be the \u00abdaughter of\u00bb, in Hollywood, when your father is none other than the great Francis Ford Coppola, and to want to adapt, for your first feature film, a novel about the suicide of five teenage girls, is a kamikaze mission. Yet it's a successful entry, explosive with sweetness and melancholy, that gives Sofia Coppola a well-deserved place in the world of cinema.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Although the film looks back at the final days leading up to the Lisbon sisters' suicide, the plot is not told from their point of view. As an outsider, the narrator is none other than a young man who dated the girls from afar twenty-five years ago. After a failed first attempt, C\u00e9cilia, the youngest, impaled herself on the garden gate, condemning her sisters to reclusion. Following this episode, the narrator, obsessed with Therese, Mary, Bonnie and especially Lux (Kirsten Dunst), begins to spy on them, along with his friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through their eyes and reflections, we observe the lifestyles of these young women in search of freedom and identity. Deliberately denying the viewer the possibility of getting inside the heads of those we follow is a bias that has earned Coppola much criticism, as she herself wrote the screenplay based on the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Eug\u00e9nides. First and foremost is the fact of approaching a theme as serious and complex as suicide without addressing the motivations, reasoning and causes that led the protagonists to this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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