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Sofia Coppola's latest, "Somewhere:" I wish

Posted by tinear on March 31, 2011 at 08:41:42:
it were.
Worth more than hundreds of tripe like, "Battle: LA," but still not a very satisfying effort.
A film megastar, portrayed in an opaque way by Stephen Dorff, the man who has labored for 15 years under the label, "the next Brando." But whereas Brando was splendid in another film about a suffering middle-age guy, Dorff gives us very little to chew on. Coppola is no Bertolucci. The best two things about the film: the daughter as played by Elle Fanning and the true star of the film, a black Ferrari.
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It is a mistake to portray a bored person by only showing them in bored poses: that is editing with a vengeance and serves no purpose but to bore the audience. There is some wonderful stuff about Marco's relationship with his formerly estranged daughter, but in the climactic scene, Dorff disappoints: he just didn't portray grief very convincingly. And that final smile was an easy way out: we already knew where he was headed, that was an insecurity on the part of the director.