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Sofia Coppola's Feminine Exploration Of Womanhood Is A Lost Art In Film

Director Sofia Coppola’s work was dismissed for years as being superficially frilly, frivolous, and girly. Her films were seen as lacking depth, luring you in with pastel colors, beautiful girls, and relics of adolescence but lacking deeper substance.

By Jaimee Marshall7 min read
marie antoinette 2006
Sony Pictures/Marie Antoinette/2006

This criticism is funny, however, because Coppola’s visuals are perhaps her most striking talent, saying a great deal without verbalizing anything at all. Coppola is a master of showing, not telling – a rare quality in today’s film, much less films that are merely vehicles for social commentary.