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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 ★★★★ 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 GrantDF ★★★★★

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

Tragedy + time = comedy, or so the saying goes. I think this equation has quite a bit of relevance to The Virgin Suicides but maybe this formula needs to be reconfigured. I'll come back to it.

Socially straitjacketed by a strictly religious mother (played by Kathleen Turner), the teenaged Lisbon sisters have little to do but attend school or spend time at home, playing records, writing and drawing – and gazing out of windows at the rapidly dwindling tree population. The year is 1975 and Dutch elm disease is in full swing, necessitating the destruction of numerous deciduous trees in order to try and prevent a wider arboreal calamity.

It’s unsurprising that the film’s secluded sisters, in particular, should…
Review by Hannah ★★★★★

depression but make it dreamy
Review by Matías Sanz Cavallera ★★★★½

When it finished, i just wanted to rewatched it right away, wich is rare in me, i never do that.
It let me thinking for a while...
Review by Joshua Buck ★★★★★

A tragic comedy that's lighter than Air. Strange magic, indeed.
Review by poppycutlerx ★★★★½

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

good movie.
but you don’t find out why all the girls killed themselves so that was a bit annoying.
but it was great :)
Review by laelito ★★★½

Gloriously gauzy and disturbing.
Review by la llorona ★★★½

soft and sad.
Review by jenn 🎥 ★★★★

changed the rate from 3'5 stars to 4 because this shit was so good
Review by liv 🎲 ★★★★★

there’s something about this film that i just really love a lot. it’s the kind of love where your heart is soaring and your mind is at peace. the entirety of the film was just so authentic and dreamlike to me i felt like it was in it’s own superior genre that i badly need more of. it’s sad that there isn’t anything else that i know of that’s like this. this truly gave teen films a different life.

(also yes aj cook i still love u thank u for now being in one of my favourite films and ofc one of my favourite tv shows #jj4ever)