"Movie Sounds!" is a feature introducing recommended movie soundtracks to FASHION HEADLINE readers. For our first installment, we bring you "The Virgin Suicides."
Sofia Coppola's directorial debut is a film adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' best-selling novel, "Five Sisters Who Committed Suicide in Dragonfly Season." The story is set in suburban America in the 1970s. The five Lisbon sisters, aged between 13 and 17, are beautiful with blonde hair and pale skin. Their rooms are filled with girly items such as perfume, accessories, stuffed animals, and flowers. The story follows two sisters, always together wherever they go and whatever they do, under the strict care of their mother, as seen through the eyes of the neighborhood boys.
To adolescent boys, girls are unknown creatures. In an attempt to understand their feelings, they play detectives, reading the youngest sister's diary, observing them through a telescope, and collecting anything related to them. Their next resort is to send a message via record over the phone: "Hello, it's me. I've been thinking about you for so long" (Todd Rundgren, "Hello It's Me"). A song plays over the phone when the girls reply: "Just yesterday I was fine, bright and cheerful... I'm really, naturally, alone again" (Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Alone Again (Naturally)"). And so they begin to communicate through records: "Whenever you're lonely, call on me. If you need a shoulder to lean on, come to me" (Bee Gees, "Run To Me"). "So far away... How I wish I could see your face through the door" (Carole King, "So Far Away"). This is a groundbreaking and moving scene in which music is not used to enhance the atmosphere of a scene, but is actually played in place of words within the story.
This work has two soundtracks: a compilation of existing songs used in the film as mentioned above, and an original soundtrack written by French electro duo Air. The '70s songs convey the atmosphere of the era as heard by the characters. Meanwhile, Air's song, which plays during the scene in which the blonde girls trapped in cages leap free and beam with smiles, has a dreamy, floating synth feel, evoking the freshness and precariousness of adolescence and the elusive spirit of young girls. It would suit a bluish morning like the one in which Lux (Kirsten Dunst) wakes up on the grass, or a dark room lit with candles and lights.
Sofia Coppola's directorial debut is a film adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' best-selling novel, "Five Sisters Who Committed Suicide in Dragonfly Season." The story is set in suburban America in the 1970s. The five Lisbon sisters, aged between 13 and 17, are beautiful with blonde hair and pale skin. Their rooms are filled with girly items such as perfume, accessories, stuffed animals, and flowers. The story follows two sisters, always together wherever they go and whatever they do, under the strict care of their mother, as seen through the eyes of the neighborhood boys.
To adolescent boys, girls are unknown creatures. In an attempt to understand their feelings, they play detectives, reading the youngest sister's diary, observing them through a telescope, and collecting anything related to them. Their next resort is to send a message via record over the phone: "Hello, it's me. I've been thinking about you for so long" (Todd Rundgren, "Hello It's Me"). A song plays over the phone when the girls reply: "Just yesterday I was fine, bright and cheerful... I'm really, naturally, alone again" (Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Alone Again (Naturally)"). And so they begin to communicate through records: "Whenever you're lonely, call on me. If you need a shoulder to lean on, come to me" (Bee Gees, "Run To Me"). "So far away... How I wish I could see your face through the door" (Carole King, "So Far Away"). This is a groundbreaking and moving scene in which music is not used to enhance the atmosphere of a scene, but is actually played in place of words within the story.
This work has two soundtracks: a compilation of existing songs used in the film as mentioned above, and an original soundtrack written by French electro duo Air. The '70s songs convey the atmosphere of the era as heard by the characters. Meanwhile, Air's song, which plays during the scene in which the blonde girls trapped in cages leap free and beam with smiles, has a dreamy, floating synth feel, evoking the freshness and precariousness of adolescence and the elusive spirit of young girls. It would suit a bluish morning like the one in which Lux (Kirsten Dunst) wakes up on the grass, or a dark room lit with candles and lights.
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