“The Virgin Suicides” and the Female Gaze

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl.”

That line, spoken by the grown men still haunted by the Lisbon sisters decades later, is the key to understanding Sofia Coppola’s debut film, The Virgin Suicides.

This video breaks down how Coppola used cinematography, music, and a singularly feminine perspective to build a film that men narrate but can never fully access.

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