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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 4

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 mia ★★★★ 3

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 ★★★★½

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 2KattThatRoar2 ★★★

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

I was not the biggest fan of the film The Virgin suicides because I am not a fan of things missing in the story, I like the mystery solved, for things to be all figured out and you don't get that in this movie, but that is the point, the narrator doesn't know and most likely will never know, and your'e in the same position. However it is a very beautiful movie, with a great sound track and very smart symbolism throughout the whole movie.
Review by acopeland02 ★★★★★

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

The Virgin Suicides is a masterpiece. This film is one that takes multiple viewings to absorb, and the viewer needs to be in a very specific headspace to enjoy this film. The film features five teenage sisters, living in 1970s circa Michigan. Kirsten Dunst serves as the unofficial fourteen-year-old protagonist, Lux. The five sisters are repressed, bored, and secretly promiscuous. The youngest Celia, first kills herself, beginning the story, and ending with the other four killing themselves at the end, as well. The film is extremely detail heavy, from carefully curated shots to a custom soundtrack. The film perfectly captures what is like to be your average teenage girl, and highlights typical gender differences. The beautiful thing about this film, is that we want to pity these poor girls, however, they are really cruel, heartless, teens. Because of the unique narration, through their male counterparts, we see them in the romanticized light, making a distinct and complex modern classic.
Review by 'Becca'lise ★★★★½

Beautiful. Devastating.
Review by ller ★★★ 1

I think it's just the boys themselves that created this magical air of mystery surrounding the Lisbon girls like no dude you're just horny.

But I adore the whole blonde & deep blue feeling this film gives. It's like that few seconds of fuzzy bliss upon waking up before everything you know sinks in.
Review by JackZhou ★★★½

The Virgin Suicides is story about five sisters, theirs live in a christian family but because they r very beautiful so there has lot of boys want to date them, but theirs parent doesn't want them date with anybody , so they feel is not fear to them so they kill them self
Review by Alan ★★★½

A quiet, airy little film. Whereas most films might veer into overdramatization or self-important ironic detachment, The Virgin Suicides is understated, mysterious, and melancholic. It captures a sense of place and time while remaining placeless; most Americans live in the suburbs, and young teens often are caged, if not physically by overprotective parents or a built environment meant to turn people into easily cowed sacks of potato's then by an increasingly centralized and commodified internet and social media complex. The life of teenage girls surely remains as hard as ever. The brilliance of this film is how it captures this sense of alienation and isolation, how it turns mundane events, brief glimpses of freedom and happiness, into turning points, and…
Review by solaces ★★★½

the visuals are so dreamy... this film felt hazy & bittersweet. the theme is so DARK but the film makes it seem beautiful- well romanticized. kind of boring but it’s honestly worth the watch... the visuals are just too pretty
Review by reganchristian ★★★★

despite time passing since my teenage melancholy phase, it still holds up. beautiful.
Review by Colin Freeman ★★★★½

Initially, I hated this movie. Throughout the first five minutes I nitpicked it for any little thing that I did not like. But, very quickly my perspective on the movie changed after I realized the intentions of Sophia Coppola with her claustrophobic sense of cinematography.
Also, the use of color in this movie rivals her father’s use of color Apocalypse Now.

After watching this for a first time, I’m surprised to say that I want to watch this again because I know there is a lot I missed on my first viewing. Despite me going into this movie believing I would hate it because it is “not my type of movie”, I really liked it.