First time I went to see this film I was like wow, this is a very long boring empty films but curiously it kind of stayed with me, after I left the cinema I felt quite sad and some images came back to me, stuff I really like (the pole dancers) and other stuff I was wondering were doing there.
So I went to see it again, and loved it. This film is like a jigsaw, there's more to it than you actually see, there's glimpses of informations here and there, like the beginning where the car is racing in circles over and over, then later on the car stops in the middle of Beverly Hills and the protagonists are stucked not knowing what to do and then towards the end the actor stops outside of LA in the country side and finally knows what to do ... carry on and walk ... this film full of metaphors is also about Los Angeles.
It's not about being famous, but about being an adult and not being able to grow up, about being lost and trap in a routine and as I said a film about LA. Those who thinks Coppola is just a rich kid who makes film about Hollywood are in the wrong. She does films about what she knows. The film could be remade with a factory worker and it would work. And the same people who criticise Coppola would say it's genius.
Coppola is not cold, there's some wonderful scenes of intimacy between the actor and his daughter, the pole dancers scenes are actually surprisingly fresh and the scene of the Château Marmont's member of staff singing with a guitar is really sweet.
If anything this film is a bit clumsy, naive and a bit pretentious but not bad. It's all about feelings and using your brain.
So I went to see it again, and loved it. This film is like a jigsaw, there's more to it than you actually see, there's glimpses of informations here and there, like the beginning where the car is racing in circles over and over, then later on the car stops in the middle of Beverly Hills and the protagonists are stucked not knowing what to do and then towards the end the actor stops outside of LA in the country side and finally knows what to do ... carry on and walk ... this film full of metaphors is also about Los Angeles.
It's not about being famous, but about being an adult and not being able to grow up, about being lost and trap in a routine and as I said a film about LA. Those who thinks Coppola is just a rich kid who makes film about Hollywood are in the wrong. She does films about what she knows. The film could be remade with a factory worker and it would work. And the same people who criticise Coppola would say it's genius.
Coppola is not cold, there's some wonderful scenes of intimacy between the actor and his daughter, the pole dancers scenes are actually surprisingly fresh and the scene of the Château Marmont's member of staff singing with a guitar is really sweet.
If anything this film is a bit clumsy, naive and a bit pretentious but not bad. It's all about feelings and using your brain.