It’s surprising that any of these clips track her, except that Coppola’s sensibility is so specific, and her actors so eager to satisfy it, that each scene feels like a distinctive piece of music. At its Venice Film Festival premiere in early September, the film received strong reviews and was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, while an emotional Priscilla Priscilla told Coppola: “You’ve done your homework.”
“I still can’t believe our movie got put together,” Coppola says now. Although the makeup was difficult, she remembers that while she was on set, she was in her element like never before.
“At first, I was kind of thinking about it,” she admitted, speaking about her career. “And now, while filming this movie ‘Priscilla’, I felt like I knew how to do this.” “All the years of experience are starting to take shape.”
Later at lunch, We were interrupted by a 25-year-old woman who was hoping Coppola would sign her book. She was wearing a frilly dress of the kind that Marie Antoinette would have dazzled, with a constellation of arm tattoos poking out from under her lace sleeves.
“My name is Sophia,” the fan said shyly. “I’m named after you.”
In a trembling voice, the young woman explained that when her parents immigrated from Panama, Coppola’s films were among the first they saw. That’s how she got her name and, over time, the desire to follow her role model in filmmaking. “You have no idea the impact you have had on my life,” Sophia II said as a tear ran down her cheek.
Coppola, who said she lived and worked in a “little bubble,” is always surprised when she meets people who strongly associate that with her work. “A lot of these films haven’t been seen, and because the younger generation is watching them now, it’s great for them to talk about them,” she told me.
