After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
Direction
Coppola's static shots make emptiness devastatingly beautiful
Acting
Elle Fanning's 11-year-old wisdom outshines the adults
Cinematography
Chateau Marmont becomes a character of beige privilege
Director
Sofia Coppola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stephen Dorff improvised much of his character's physicality, including that iconic repetitive ice skating sequence.
Coppola wrote this after 'Marie Antoinette' backlash, exploring her own complicated relationship with fame and fatherhood—her father Francis appears in the film's fictional movie-within-a-movie.
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