The Virgin Suicides

Director: Sophia Coppola

1999 / 97min / 35mm

One of the most accomplished directorial debuts of the 1990s, Coppola’s adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel tells the story of five death-haunted teenaged siblings in a posh Detroit suburb, the Lisbon sisters, by way of a swooning sensorial immersion in the very textures and languorous rhythms of suburban privilege and anguished innocence. Electronic duo Air provide the pillowy dreamscape soundtrack, while Kirsten Dunst—then emerging as one of the most exciting young American actresses working—anchors the central quintet.