Priscilla
2023, drama, love, music
110 minutes
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
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8.3
2024-01-18
It doesn’t have the pomp and circumstance of Luhrmann’s journey but the simple telling of this story of a girl plucked from normalcy works far better for me because structurally we get a better script... Read more
8.0
2023-12-30
The production was unable to acquire the rights to use any of Elvis's music, and it works in the movie's favour. Read more
8.0
2023-12-30
Turning the tables on history to an extent, Sofia Coppola’s impeccably crafted character study masterfully illustrates this isolation. Read more
8.0
2023-10-31
Coppola’s pace and construction are reliably assured and more easily identifiable than anything she’s done since The Beguiled. The production design and time stamp are both detailed and gorgeous, wrapped in a dreamlike haze that slowly fades when reality starts chipping away at Priscilla’s youthful naivete. Read more
7.5
2024-08-24
Spaeny does a phenomenal job of telling a lot with very few speaking lines, as her nuanced work helps to give you somewhat of an idea of how she feels. Read more
7.0
2023-12-28
It’s a well-made film, with a stunning central performance by the 25-year-old Cailee Spaeny. But it’s hardly a film that fills you with festive cheer. Read more
6.0
2024-01-15
Priscilla, painted with a filter of candor and maintaining its drive and passion, ultimately comes together nicely, more in the form of a dramatic whisper than a shout of affirmation. Read more
6.0
2023-11-02
Priscilla is likely not trying to make apologies, sugarcoat, protect, sanitize, or hide the sordid truth from the matriarch’s own memoir, but maybe, just maybe, it was too soft. That likely falls on Sofia more than Priscilla herself. Read more
5.0
2024-02-08
The film just isn’t entertaining to me, not even a glint of joy as Coppola drenched it in gloom and melancholy. Read more
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8.0
2023-11-06
Het intieme privéleven tussen Elvis en Priscilla biedt voldoende stof voor een aangrijpend drama en blijkt achteraf een fascinerende invalshoek te zijn voor een geslaagde verfilming van Priscilla's zelfgeschreven boek: Elvis and Me. Read more
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