April 15, 2023

Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides Getting A 4K Release

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Studiocanal are set to give Sofia Coppola‘s The Virgin Suicides a release on on Blu-ray, DVD and, for the first time in the UK, on 4K UHD and Digital from March.

The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner and A.J. Cook.

The film was based on the 1993 best-selling novel of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides, a book which Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth had recommended to Sofia Coppola and which immediately resonated with her, as she explains: “I really didn’t know I wanted to be a director until I read ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and saw so clearly how it had to be done. I was really motivated to make something sensitive and accurate to a teenage girl. I immediately saw the central story as being about what distance and time and memory do to you, and about the extraordinary power of the unfathomable.

Mesmeric cinematography from Ed Lachman (Carol, Far From Heaven) and a cult soundtrack by French electronic music duo Air. They are one of Sofia Coppola’s favourite bands, composed the original music score for the film, brilliantly evoking the dreamlike melancholy of suburban adolescence. It was their first soundtrack and highly acclaimed by critics, being considered as one of the best film scores ever recorded.

In a quiet, conservative American town in the 1970s, Cecilia Lisbon, just 13, attempts suicide. She is one of five beautiful teenage sisters and this incident begins to unravel the lives of the entire family. The story is told from the point of view of the neighbourhood boys who are obsessed with these enigmatic sisters and draws its dark humour from the fabric of teenage life. Little by little, the family begins to shut itself off from friends and neighbours and the girls are soon forbidden to go out. As the situation spirals downward, the boys plot to rescue the girls.

The Virgin Suicides is a 4K restoration from Criterion, approved by director Sofia Coppola and supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman.

Special Features:

  • Soundtrack by Air: a new interview with JB Dunckel & Nicolas Godin
  • Revisiting “The Virgin Suicides” (2018)
  • In Conversation with Jeffrey Eugenides (2018)
  • Making “The Virgin Suicides” (1998)
  • Lick The Star short film (1998)

The Virgin Suicides will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and, for the first time in the UK, on 4K UHD and Digital from 13th March.

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