VENICE (Hollywood Reporter) – After her foray into historical costumers with "Marie Antoinette," Sofia Coppola makes a happy return to "Lost in Translation" territory in the cut-back charmer "Somewhere," which illuminates the emptiness of a movie star's life in Los Angeles through close observation and gentle irony.Despite its subject, Coppola seems to be exercising more of her European than American sensibility in the small-scale intimacy of this portrait. Lacking the stars of "Lost in Translation," it may not go quite as far with audiences, but can still count on a strong critical push. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival.Once again shooting from her own original screenplay, Coppola stays close to the details and innuendos of the story, making every shot count. With lots of fixed-frame shots and occasionally playing out scenes in real time, the film has a relaxed indie rhythm and laid-back style that mimics the way Hollywood actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) coasts through life.He's introduced in a daringly long and monotonous opening shot, as he drives his noisy Ferrari round in circles on an empty track in the desert. The meaninglessness of this activity, from which he emerges a little dazed, is typical of everything he does: falling down the stairs high and breaking an arm, having sex with a stream of interchangeable blondes, living on a diet of beer and cigarettes, constant parties and more girls.With sardonic humor, sex is shown as putting Johnny to sleep, or as just a quick, meaningless physical workout. His venomous exes think he's a shallow jerk. But Johnny, in Dorff's easygoing, slightly anonymous interpretation, is actually a nice guy. He doesn't even realize how lost he is, until his ex-wife leaves town and forces him to spend several days in the company of his 11-year-old daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning).Though he has never developed any fathering skills, Johnny manages to show her a good time on a flash trip to Milan for the Telegatto Awards, a send-up of Italian TV glitz. He still wakes up with a blonde in his bed (Italian starlet Laura Chiatti on this occasion), raising Cleo's eyebrows, but the foreign country brings them closer.Much of what works in "Somewhere" is subtle and glancing, like the unemphasized comparison of fresh, natural Cleo with Johnny's jaded lovers. In two delightful scenes, repeated perhaps to show the unimaginative nature of his sexual fantasies, pole-dancing twins (Kristina and Karissa Shannon) appear in his hotel room performing to disco tunes. Not long afterward, Cleo performs an ice-skating routine to music in an equally succinct costume, while her father looks on admiringly.Johnny's stumbling effort to assume a father's role with Cleo is the first step to breaking out of his celebrity torpor. Scene by scene, a bond builds between them, eventually bringing Johnny to the Big Question, first posed at a farcical press conference: Who is he? An upbeat final scene gives hope he's looking for an answer.Dorff has the body and looks to play the hunky star, and the humility to erase most traces of personality for the bland role, which sometimes requires just smoking a cigarette from start to finish. Young Fanning, who is already a veteran actress, gives Cleo poise and lots of skills -- cooking, skating -- that help mask her emotional fragility. In the part of Johnny's longtime buddy, Chris Pontius (of "Jackass" fame) has the naturalness with Cleo he badly lacks.Los Angeles is "Somewhere's" Tokyo, and the city itself plays a principal role in the film. The iconic hotel the Chateau Marmont, with its singing waiter Romolo and duplex suites, plays a major part as Johnny's impersonal home and refuge. L.A.'s interminable roads and freeways also figure prominently, accompanied by the roar of the Ferrar2C imprisoned in traffic and always driving placidly down the middle lane.Eri Takenaka mp3 songs download, Davidrex X mp3 songs download, Download Raw Sienna mp3 album, The Rational Academy music downloads, Tobias Jonas Unger download mp3 albums, Cary August mp3 downloads, Peter Wright mp3 albums, Thomas Muller mp3 songs download, Sunburnt Octopus mp3 albums downloads, Frances Mckee mp3 download, Shades of Culture mp3, Download Matthias Heillbronn mp3, DJ Fist music downloads, Comunalien mp3 downloads, Chas. Mtn. mp3 songs download, Peanut mp3 albums downloads, Bombilla mp3 albums downloads, Phive Pound featuring Sexy Tricia mp3 albums, Download Big Pokey featuring Slim Thug mp3, Electronic Pirates download mp3 albums
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VENICE (Hollywood Reporter) – After her foray into historical costumers with "Marie Antoinette," Sofia Coppola makes a happy return to "Lost in Translation" territory in the cut-back charmer "Somewhere," which illuminates the emptiness of a movie star's life in Los Angeles through close observation and gentle irony.Despite its subject, Coppola seems to be exercising more of her European than American sensibility in the small-scale intimacy of this portrait. Lacking the stars of "Lost in Translation," it may not go quite as far with audiences, but can still count on a strong critical push. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival.Once again shooting from her own original screenplay, Coppola stays close to the details and innuendos of the story, making every shot count. With lots of fixed-frame shots and occasionally playing out scenes in real time, the film has a relaxed indie rhythm and laid-back style that mimics the way Hollywood actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) coasts through life.He's introduced in a daringly long and monotonous opening shot, as he drives his noisy Ferrari round in circles on an empty track in the desert. The meaninglessness of this activity, from which he emerges a little dazed, is typical of everything he does: falling down the stairs high and breaking an arm, having sex with a stream of interchangeable blondes, living on a diet of beer and cigarettes, constant parties and more girls.With sardonic humor, sex is shown as putting Johnny to sleep, or as just a quick, meaningless physical workout. His venomous exes think he's a shallow jerk. But Johnny, in Dorff's easygoing, slightly anonymous interpretation, is actually a nice guy. He doesn't even realize how lost he is, until his ex-wife leaves town and forces him to spend several days in the company of his 11-year-old daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning).Though he has never developed any fathering skills, Johnny manages to show her a good time on a flash trip to Milan for the Telegatto Awards, a send-up of Italian TV glitz. He still wakes up with a blonde in his bed (Italian starlet Laura Chiatti on this occasion), raising Cleo's eyebrows, but the foreign country brings them closer.Much of what works in "Somewhere" is subtle and glancing, like the unemphasized comparison of fresh, natural Cleo with Johnny's jaded lovers. In two delightful scenes, repeated perhaps to show the unimaginative nature of his sexual fantasies, pole-dancing twins (Kristina and Karissa Shannon) appear in his hotel room performing to disco tunes. Not long afterward, Cleo performs an ice-skating routine to music in an equally succinct costume, while her father looks on admiringly.Johnny's stumbling effort to assume a father's role with Cleo is the first step to breaking out of his celebrity torpor. Scene by scene, a bond builds between them, eventually bringing Johnny to the Big Question, first posed at a farcical press conference: Who is he? An upbeat final scene gives hope he's looking for an answer.Dorff has the body and looks to play the hunky star, and the humility to erase most traces of personality for the bland role, which sometimes requires just smoking a cigarette from start to finish. Young Fanning, who is already a veteran actress, gives Cleo poise and lots of skills -- cooking, skating -- that help mask her emotional fragility. In the part of Johnny's longtime buddy, Chris Pontius (of "Jackass" fame) has the naturalness with Cleo he badly lacks.Los Angeles is "Somewhere's" Tokyo, and the city itself plays a principal role in the film. The iconic hotel the Chateau Marmont, with its singing waiter Romolo and duplex suites, plays a major part as Johnny's impersonal home and refuge. L.A.'s interminable roads and freeways also figure prominently, accompanied by the roar of the Ferrar2C imprisoned in traffic and always driving placidly down the middle lane.Eri Takenaka mp3 songs download, Davidrex X mp3 songs download, Download Raw Sienna mp3 album, The Rational Academy music downloads, Tobias Jonas Unger download mp3 albums, Cary August mp3 downloads, Peter Wright mp3 albums, Thomas Muller mp3 songs download, Sunburnt Octopus mp3 albums downloads, Frances Mckee mp3 download, Shades of Culture mp3, Download Matthias Heillbronn mp3, DJ Fist music downloads, Comunalien mp3 downloads, Chas. Mtn. mp3 songs download, Peanut mp3 albums downloads, Bombilla mp3 albums downloads, Phive Pound featuring Sexy Tricia mp3 albums, Download Big Pokey featuring Slim Thug mp3, Electronic Pirates download mp3 albums