First clip from Sofia Coppola’s SOMEWHERE is better than you realise

First clip from Sofia Coppola’s SOMEWHERE is better than you realise

Aug 27

In what would otherwise be described as a ‘boring’ first clip from Sofia Coppola‘s upcoming film Somewhere, Stephen Dorff and Michelle Monaghan are seen awkwardly standing through a photo shoot for their film-within-the-film. The clip is titled ‘You Look Amazing‘ and comes via Reelz Channel; you can watch it embedded below, and read the synopsis as well.

Shades of her father, Sofia has mastered recreating the reality of uncomfortable/awkward situations and naturally bringing them to the screen. This is the kind of stuff I enjoy in films, because it is rarely done so effectively. The trailer, which arrived back in June, promises more of the same.

Somewhere hits U.S. cinemas 22 December, 2010.

Sofia Coppola’s (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), “a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel.  His days are a haze of drinks, girls, fast cars and fawning fans.  Cocooned in this celebrity-induced artificial world, Johnny has lost all sense of his true self.  Until, that is, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) unexpectedly shows up and unwittingly begins to anchor him.  Johnny’s fragile connection to real life slowly revives in her presence. So when the time comes fro Cleo to leave, his sense of loss is palpable, but the gift of hope she has also brought him leads to a beautiful, poetic denouement imbued with all of Coppola’s remarkable powers to conjure mood and atmosphere.