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The Virgin Suicides

1999 Directed by Sofia Coppola

Beautiful, mysterious, haunting, invariably fatal. Just like life.

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

Kirsten Dunst Josh Hartnett A.J. Cook James Woods Kathleen Turner Leslie Hayman Hanna Hall Chelse Swain Jonathan Tucker Noah "40" Shebib Anthony DeSimone Lee Kagan Michael Paré Scott Glenn Danny DeVito Robert Schwartzman Hayden Christensen Kristin Fairlie Giovanni Ribisi Joe Dinicol

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Review by Anna ★★ 5

tag yourselves i'm the virgins that committed suicide
Review by brat pitt ★★★★½ 3

the only thing that would've made this suicide squad better is margot robbie
Review by robyn ★★★★★ 2

Do you have a film that makes you so happy but so completely sad at the same time? Because this film, this hazy and soft and sparkly film is mine.
Review by daniel day-lewis' hoop earring ★★★★ 5

i really wanna meet kirsten dunst just so i can ask her what's her secret to make all the guys go crazy.
i mean she did date jake gyllenhaal so she's legit
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 4

78

So impenetrable, sleepy, unsettling and fierce. For me, it isn't really a question of why the Lisbon sisters do what they do, but why so many people look at them with confusion, mystery, and detachment in their mind and fantasies. Why does Trip leave the football field that night, exactly? It certainly isn't post-sex ennui. Rather, it stems from the male dominance refusing to come to terms with someone complex, someone who needs not to be judged but simply understood as another person, in all their flaws and fuzzy grey areas. The only constant, real-life individuals are the Lisbon sisters - everyone else is attempting to enter a dream-world that doesn't exist, suddenly being given consequences to their elusive actions.
Review by Daniel ★★★★★

One of the most predominantly memorable, yet overlooked shots in Sofia Coppola's 1999 masterpiece is a shot of a Japanese parasol next to Cecilia during her first attempted suicide. A parasol from a culture with the highest suicide rate of all time, where an act which seems cowardly or immature in other societies is seen culturally as an act of honor.

The Lisbon girls are but shadows. Their faces once remembered vividly by the neighborhood boys are almost completely diminished. All that's left if the mysteriously beautiful times they shared before a future was lost.

Just like their very own tree on their front lawn, the Lisbon girls appear normal but are extremely sick. The comprehension of the surrounding citizens…

Recent reviews

Review by Ángela ★★★★½

What a gorgeous film. It made everything look so beautiful and magical even when the story was sad and tragic.

I feel bittersweet and extremely sorry for the parents.
Review by Jacob Gehman ★★★½ 2

I'm a high school lover, and you're my favorite flavor
Love is all, all my soul
You're my Playground Love

Yet my hands are shaking
I feel my body remains, themes no matter, I'm on fire
On the playground, love.

You're the piece of gold the flushes all my soul.
Extra time, on the ground.
You're my Playground Love.

Anytime, anyway,
You're my Playground Love

(honestly this movie just got me really hyped to listen to Air
i mean, I liked the movie quite a bit; it's fuzzy and dreamy and I kind of feel like it gave me the prom I never had
i think it'll be one of those films I look back on and wonder how I only gave it 3.5 stars
but fuck me how good is Air?)
Review by Imogen💌 ★★★★

The score for this film <333333333333
Review by jessica ⚡️ ★★★★

sofia coppola casting the virgin suicides:
actually can i have five more of these little blonde bitches
Review by michaelcuenca ★★★★★

“Obviously, doctor, you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.”
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Absolute blissfulness: every composition lands. The tiny ticks that make movies wizardry for me. Ticks you only notice upon repeat viewings… like when you hang out with a friend all the time and catch on to all the nuances that makes them special. A favorite thing: the sprinkler going off at the end, when the dad is holding Cecilia in his arms, the girls crying to the side, the mom screaming.
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I’ve seen this movie well over a dozen times but that Criterion transfer... by Jove… the color grading, retaining the film stock grain... it looks amazing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀
It’d been a handful of years, can’t really tell you how many,…
Review by Ned Kimball ★★★★½ 1

I just want to talk to James Woods about model airplanes.
Review by thadesperado ★★★★

What we see is not always what it seems.
Review by jxmieleecvrtis

No soporto a Sofía Coppola, parte 3 (pero me gusta esto porque el libro es un librazo)
Review by Brahski ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

52 Years, 52 Women-Directed Films Challenge Film 30

it's one of those movies where i'm pretty sure i'm interpreting it the right way (which is that if these boys had actually done something to help instead of playing in this voyeuristic fantasy, the Lisbon sisters might not have died and that's the reason they can't understand why the girls killed themselves) but also i think it'd be pretty easy to read this A Lot of different ways maybe. which is, like, good as a filmmaker but it always makes me nervous that i'm going to be talking about a drastically different movie than everyone else