Sofia Coppola learned a long time ago that in order to have full creative freedom, she'd have to to get creative with budgets and timelines.
Director Sofia Coppola poses for a portrait to promote"Priscilla" on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the glamour, the soul in the superficial. Her dreamy, lyrical portraits of girl culture and gilded cages have brought her to 18th century Versailles, 1970s suburban Michigan, the 1860s South, noughties Calabasas and modern-day Tokyo, West Hollywood and Manhattan.
“It’s such a grand moment,” Coppola said. “Our budget was pretty small for what we were trying to pull off.”This would involve a lot of “creative solutions” with her trusted filmmaking team, including cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd, production designer Tamara Deverell and costume designer Stacey Battat. They shot digitally instead of on film. To save some money on costumes without compromising quality, they enlisted the help of high-profile fashion houses:handled Elvis’s knitwear and suits.
The Graceland set became a special place, too. One night, Coppola and her kids snuck into it and had a birthday cake in the dining room for her daughter’s 16th birthday. When the production wrapped, the crew had champagne in the living room. “I felt so lucky that I was able to ask her questions throughout the process. But with that scene, I had to ask her, like, ‘What kind of costumes?’” Coppola said with a smile. “You’re trying to get inside, but not pry and still be polite. She kind of hesitated and was like, ‘Well, you know, like secretary.’”
“She was expected to be totally content, happy to have a big house and a successful husband, and that should be enough for a woman to be fulfilled," said Coppola, who dedicated the film to her mother. Coppola has known this anecdotally for a while. But she’s been able to observe the phenomenon on a mass scale with the recent release of her book “Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023.” And even if this hasn’t made getting her films greenlit any easier, she’s just more confident now than the person who thought about quitting“I feel so grateful that I get to make exactly what I want to make without any compromises,” she said.
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