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The Virgin Suicides

September 2023

  • Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola’s 1999 film adaptation.

    ‘She was chatty, seemingly untroubled’: Jeffrey Eugenides on the babysitter who inspired The Virgin Suicides

    He was going nowhere as a writer. Then a shocking chat with a teenage girl in Detroit changed everything. Here, the author reveals the astonishing story behind his explosive debut

August 2023

  • Sofia Coppola sleeping on a chaise longue on the set of Marie Antionette.

    Behind the scenes with Sofia Coppola: memories from a life in film

    The director shares the inspirations and experiences that shaped films from Lost in Translation to her forthcoming biopic, Priscilla​

January 2023

  • AJ Cook, Kirsten Dunst, Leslie Hayman and Chelse Swain in the 1999 film adaptation of The Virgin Suicides.

    The Virgin Suicides at 30: why I’m obsessed with this dark, dreamy novel

    I grew up in Florida, but Jeffrey Eugenides’s story of five doomed midwestern sisters felt intensely familiar. What is it that makes me return to this bleakly comic novel again and again?

April 2020

  • 1999, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES<br>KIRSTEN DUNST Character(s): Lux Lisbon Film 'THE VIRGIN SUICIDES' (1999) Directed By SOFIA COPPOLA 19 May 1999 CTE14010 Allstar/PARAMOUNT PICTURES **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of PARAMOUNT PICTURES and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To PARAMOUNT PICTURES is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    The Virgin Suicides at 20: Sofia Coppola's debut continues to haunt

    A melancholic adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel about death in 70s suburbia remains a perfect marriage of style and substance

January 2018

  • Virgin Suicides 1999. Sofia Coppola directing Kirsten Dunst during the making of the movie. COLLECTION CHRISTOPHEL

    The Start
    Sofia Coppola on the film that launched her – The Start podcast

  • 'I was struck by this depth in her eyes, a wise sadness’ … Sofia Coppola directing Kirsten Dunst on set of The Virgin Suicides

    Sofia Coppola on making The Virgin Suicides: 'When I saw the rough cut I thought: Oh no, what have I done?'

October 2015

  • Fargo: Series 2 kirsten dunst

    Kirsten Dunst: ‘The movie industry is in a weird place – creatives blossom on TV’

    The Fargo actor has starred in everything from superhero franchises to indie winners. She talks about feminism, vanity in the industry and kissing Brad Pitt

January 2015

  • The Virgin Suicides

    Families in literature
    Families in literature: The Lisbons in The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

    Emma-Lee Moss: The doomed sisters in this novel reveal much about the not always comfortable – but profound – nature of sibling love

September 2010

  • The Runaways - 2010

    Film blog
    Great girls' movies don't have to be chick flicks

    Danny Leigh: The Runaways proves that films which appeal to a female audience aren't always the preserve of the baldly commercial

January 2008

  • Jeffrey Eugenides

    What I know about women
    What I know about women...

    Jeffrey Eugenides 47, novelist, married, one daughter

June 2000

  • The best teenage party scene: The Virgin Suicides

    Grosse Pointe, Michigan. The mid-70s. Cecilia Lisbon (Hannah R Hall) - at 13, the youngest of the five Lisbon sisters - has recently been discharged from hospital after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Tim Weiner (Jonathan Tucker), one of the adolescent boys who idolise the sisters from across the street, speaks in voiceover.

May 2000

  • Death and the maidens

    Life's no picnic in Sofia Coppola's elliptical directorial debut. You won't understand it, but you should see it.

  • The best blond scene: The virgin suicides

    Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Five teenage boys stand by the side of an anonymous suburban road, staring at an anonymous suburban house. One of their number, Tim (Jonathan Tucker) speaks in voiceover.

  • The Virgin Suicides

    Peter Bradshaw: ...The tragic ending is arguably excessive, but Coppola's direction engagingly avoids the coming-of-age cliches

April 2000

  • Death in the family

    First Sofia Coppola was vilified as an actor in her father's film; now she is acclaimed for her debut as director. The linking thread is family tragedy

February 2000

  • Godfather's girl gets a life

    Hip, cool and happily married, Sofia Coppola has energed from the shadow of her famous father to become an accomplished film director

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