![]() ![]() I loved how the boys were so confused by the girls, and I really connected with all that lazing around in your bedroom. It felt like Jeffrey Eugenides, the writer, really understood the experience of being a teenager: the longing, the melancholy, the mystery between boys and girls. I remember seeing the cover – it was just all this blonde hair. “When I was in my mid-20s, I came across The Virgin Suicides. Despite my three-star rating, I find myself watching this movie every few years…always finding something new to appreciate about it. ![]() It’s certainly an ambitious debut feature, and it’s an even better novel. Revisiting it years later, I still found this movie to be a mixed bag – beautiful, yet hollow. Bored and confused by the appeal, I dismissed it immediately. When I was seventeen, I happened to catch this movie at a party. Even in adulthood, the boys are fascinated by the Lisbon sisters and have spent their entire lives trying to piece together the mystery behind their suicides. The film follows a group of teenage boys who become obsessed with five mysterious blonde sisters sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s. Sofia Coppola’s debut film, based off the 1993 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, is somewhat of a beautiful mess, an unsatisfying mystery that has stayed with me all these years. ![]() “We felt the imprisonment of being a girl.” ![]()
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