6/12/2023 0 Comments The virgin suïcides book about![]() ![]() In one scene, they have managed to get their hands on a diary belonging to one of the Lisbons. Now grown up, the boys narrate the girls’ story in flashback form: when tragedy strikes, it is them who will try to put the pieces together. They are, like any tale of unrequited teen crushes, watched from afar by a group of neighbourhood boys. As the title suggests, the film chronicles the short lives of the enigmatic but sheltered Lisbon sisters – Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary and Therese. Adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides’ book, Coppola’s debut film transposes the novel’s distinctive first-person-plural prose and filters it through her signature dreamlike aesthetic: here, it washes over a leafy Midwestern suburb, as seen through the eyes of the teenagers who live there. The current state of fashion is backlit by the sunshiny side of the 1970s in The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s darkened impression is part hazy nostalgia, part dazzling lens flare. ![]() How does fashion shape adolescence? Every month, Claire Healy deconstructs the ways that style culture has contributed to the idea of the teenager in new series Extreme Adolescents. ![]()
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