‘Somewhere’: Sofia’s Take on Hollywood Celebrity
After a brief foray into studio moviemaking with the period-yet-modern piece Marie Antoinette, writer and director Sofia Coppola looks to return to what she does best with the understated character study Somewhere. As in Coppola’s most successful project to date, Lost In Translation, the young Hollywood heiress to the screenwriting/directing throne borrows at least in part from her industry surroundings.
Once again the story focuses on an actor, but this time his stardom is at its peak (as opposed to the waning fame of Bill Murray’s Bob Harris). Somewhere stars Stephen Dorff as Johnny Marco, a celebrity pampered to the point of numbness, whose eleven-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) shows up at his room in the Chateau ...




