Elle Fanning is crazy watchable, and Sofia Coppola is all about watching.
Sofia Coppola makes ’60s French cinema in ’00s America. She makes something really difficult look deceptively simple: point a camera at something and just feel what it sees. I find Somewhere the least compelling of the films of hers I’ve seen, and even so I still find it hypnotically lovely:
I watched Sofia Coppola’s SOMEWHERE like a month ago. I’ve thought about this needle drop so many times since. Patient, deft, one of the best I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/TidzpQLfp1
— matt 🏄♂️ (@CFC_BaldKante) August 1, 2026
Further Viewing
Marta Colom’s supercut seeks to condense “the loneliness and beauty of all the films from Sofia Coppola” into just two minutes:
We take more lessons from the distinctive film-making of Sofia Coppola: