sources: totally elle and the stephen dorff network
I am more excited for this than I can say, truly. Not the least because I've always liked Elle the best out of the Fanning sisters, not the least because it's time for a Stephen Dorff comeback (when isn't it?), not the least because it is set in one of the most fascinating, most remarkable hotels in the world - the Chateau Marmont, not the least because it is Sofia Coppola and I worship at her shrine alone with hundreds of other teenage girls, not the least because Phoenix made the soundtrack. But because after all the prince of persia, all the A-Team, all the glitz and glam of Sex and the City 2 and "Blockbuster"extravaganzas sometimes you need to strip it all back to the base elements - A camera and a subject. Sofia Coppola, whatever you might think of her, is a superb film-maker in that she can coax performances out of her actors that you never thought were in them. She works with her camera in such a way that makes you feel that you are watching - through a window, from afar - into the lives of these subjects. Like art in that way. Her film-making is simple, but arresting. Like i've said before - quite remarkable in the eager and wide-eyed, yet still incredibly calm way she navigates life, love and everything in between.
I've been up in the Blue Mountains for the past few days, and there was no electricty, just a big fire and fetching our own water to cook and wash. I'm not saying I'd like to live like that all the time, but taking a break from it all - modernity, life, i suppose - reminds you of what, at the very heart of things, it is all about. And for three days we played cards, made our own dough for bread and pizza, learnt how to make origami boats and paper cranes and jammed with guitars on the verandah. I'm glad to be home, but while there I realised that it is the simple, easy things that are the best. Like cosy knits, like curling up and reading in front of a fire, like laughing from your belly at least once a day, like hanging out with those you really love. What I like about trips like this - and Sofia Coppola films - is that they make you celebrate everyday life, mundanity that is extraordinary in its ordinariness. You celebrate things like fires you built yourself, like drawing on your dad's plaster cast, like watching movies in bed. Sometimes I feel I want too much from life. I want fireworks and parties and 'The Grand Gesture'. Trips like these remind me to stop worrying and enjoy it all.
like this film. Simple, but totally, completely perfect.
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