Sofia Coppola & Kirsten Dunst: ’The Virgin Suicides’ [Book signing, film screening & Q&A]


Join us at The Academy Museum in Los Angeles to celebrate the launch of Sofia Coppola's new book The Virgin Suicides, published on the occasion of the film's twenty-fifth anniversary, with a book signing, film screening, and a Q&A with Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst.

Sunday 1 June 
12:00 The Virgin Suicides book signing
Tickets are available here 

14:00 The Virgin Suicides screening and Q&A with Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst
Advance tickets for the film screening and Q&A are now sold out; standby tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis here

The Academy Museum 
6067 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036

About The Virgin Suicides 

For her first feature film, The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola commissioned British fashion photographer Corinne Day to join her on set. Renowned for her unadorned, grungy photographs of iconic models of the 1990s, Day’s representation of female beauty met its match in Coppola, whose debut marked the first of her unaffected, empathetic depictions of womanhood. Edited from Day’s original negatives, this volume, which launches alongside The Virgin Suicides' twenty-fifth anniversary, gives mesmerising and unprecedented insight into Coppola’s enigmatic staging of the Lisbon sisters and their suburban trappings.  

In Day’s photographs, the lush mystique of Coppola’s set runs through images of the young actors at work and between takes, their candid posturing and pensive expressions reflecting the intimate and collaborative environment of the shoot. Fragments of the set and costume design appear suggestively – crucifixes, pink lace bras, homecoming dresses, beauty products, and toffee apples – all playing their part in Coppola’s depiction of the yearning and repression of adolescence. Completed with new texts by Sofia Coppola and Jeffrey Eugenides, this volume opens a fascinating dialogue between Eugenides’s original text and Coppola’s cult adaptation.

Header image: © Corinne Day Estate 


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