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The film is based on the 1993 debut novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. The film follows the lives of five adolescent sisters in an upper-middle-class suburb of Detroit during 1975. Shot in 1998 in Toronto, it features an original score by the French electronic band Air.
The Virgin Suicides: Directed by Sofia Coppola. With James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett. A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
The film follows the chain of events initiated by one of the Lisbon sisters' suicide attempt, and its effects on their family, their suburban town and most importantly, the young men who loved the Lisbons from afar and whose words provide the narrative for the film.
Mar 14, 2024 · The heart-wrenching ending of The Virgin Suicides explores themes of isolation, control, and understanding. The Lisbon sisters' tragic suicide is a result of entrapment and oppressive guardianship. The film challenges viewers to reflect on their roles as observers in the lives of others, highlighting the elusive nature of understanding.
A dark comedy punctuated by moments of drama, The Virgin Suicides explores the emotional underpinnings of a family starting to come apart at the seams in...
An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s highly acclaimed first novel, The Virgin Suicides conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents—as told through the collective memory of a group of men who were boys at ...
The Virgin Suicides is the debut novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides, published in 1993. The story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters, the Lisbon girls.
