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December 22, 2010 in theaters wide. Somewhere is a Drama and Comedy film. Somewhere movie stars are
Stephen Dorff as Johnny Marco,
Elle Fanning as Cleo,
Chris Pontius as Sammy,
Erin Wasson as Party Girl #1,
Alexandra Williams as Party Girl #2,
Nathalie Fay as Party Girl #3,
Kristina Shannon as Bambi,
Karissa Shannon as Cindy,
John Prudhont as Chateau Patio Waiter,
Ruby Corley as Patio Girl,
Angela Lindvall as Blonde in Mercedes,
Maryna Linchuk as Vampire Model,
Meghan Collision as Vampire Model,
Jessica Miller as Vampire Model and
Lala Sloatman as Layla and directed & written by
Sofia Coppola. Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a Hollywood actor, who, despite his recent rise to fame, does not feel much meaning in his life. He resides at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles from where he completes various publicity obligations for his new film: he is photographed with his co-star (Michelle Monaghan), gives interviews to the press, and attends an award ceremony in Italy. Despite drinking and socializing occasionally with Sammy (Chris Pontius), an old friend, Marco spends much time alone, driving his Ferrari motorcar, drinking beer, taking pills and fornicating with various women. Twice he has two pole-dancing twins (Kristina and Karissa Shannon) set up their equipment and perform in his room, the first time he falls asleep and the second routine is more calisthenic than erotic.
He receives an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning). Her stay changes his lifestyle little at first, including his indulging an overnight visitor, a blonde woman. Marco and his daughter spend time together in his hotel suite and he brings her with him on his daily routine and on a publicity trip to Italy, and through preparations for her departure to summer camp. As their time together grows, Marco's fatherly emotions emerge and force him to re-assess his otherwise 'successful' life. At the end, Marco checks out of the hotel promising not to return, and drives his Ferrari into the countryside. He gets out, leaving the keys in the ignition, and walks down the highway smiling. The film is distributed by
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Coppola's first three films examine feminine self-definition and maturation, usually in privileged circumstance. Lost in Translation (2003) depicts an encounter and brief friendship between two lonely Americans in a five star hotel in Tokyo and Marie Antoinette (2006), a stylised biopic of the eponymous queen, treated of her loneliness. Somewhere examines similar themes of success and isolation, but from a male perspective. The film explores Marco's seclusion and depression despite his outward professional success and the resulting wealth and fame. He appears to suffer from anhedonia, the inability to feel pleasure, but the film itself is reticent in suggesting the causes of this. "He believes he's nothing", summarised Roger Ebert, a critic, "and it appears he's correct". The film's opening shot, a Ferrari circling a race-track in and out of a stationary camera position, its whine and roar rising and falling, establishes the theme of ennui. The sequence's length also offers a visual cue from Coppola to relax, observe and with-hold expectations. Coppola herself said she wanted to hint at this with a simple camera set-up, "so you're alone with this guy and not aware that it's a movie. But I hope it's a welcome contrast to the style of most movies out there. Something that gives you a chance to take a breath".
The Chateau Marmont, a well-known retreat for Hollywood celebrities, is the film's setting and can be "either a paradise of easy wish-fulfilment or a purgatory of celebrity anomie" in the words of A.O. Scott, but Coppola subtly conveys the emptiness of Marco's situation without denying its appeal. Coppola has stayed at the hotel before and said "I've seen a few Johnny Marcos"; in contrast, writing the part of the daughter, she drew on childhood experiences with her director father, Francis Ford Coppola, such as attending film festivals, though she denied the film was autobiography. Coppola said that cultural depictions of fame are unbalanced, and at a time when so many strive for it she is trying to show a different side of it.
Coppola mentioned that the parental angle was inspired by the recent birth of her second child by Thomas Mars. As the film progresses the "tender and temporary" father-daughter relationship comes to the fore. Marco has partial custody of his daughter from a broken down marriage, Ebert speculates that she probably understands the reasons for the split better than he, and wonders why the child must suffer his hedonism and "detached attempts at fatherhood". In some ways Cleo - having grown up inside the Hollywood bubble - mothers her father, cooking for him and being more worldly aware, but she also watches him with the wide-eyed adoration of a child.
Coppola comes from a family of film-makers and actors, and she has said how childhood memories of living in hotels partially inspired her choice of setting. Somewhere presents a detailed portrait of life in that industry and charts its existential and emotional boundaries. While celebrity gossip websites inform us of the shallowness of much of "star life", Coppola's feature differs in its emotional depth. She wanted to depict Marco working, but not on a film set. Instead he is shown giving interviews, being photographed, attending an awards ceremony in Italy, and having special effects make-up applied. When Marco attends the special effects department his face is covered in latex, the camera then very slowly, hypnotically zooms in. Marco is obliged to use his "star" recognition to help promote his new film, when his publicist calls he becomes passive and mechanically takes the arranged chauffeured car and speaks to the press. In part, the humour derives from Marco's subdued response to these attentions, and Coppola's off-beat observation of people around him. At the Venice film festival, critics highlighted the repetition of characters in a cloistered existence in Mrs Coppola's films, to which she responded “I feel like everyone should tell what they know in the world that they know”.
Scenes from the film are said to be inspired somewhat by the director's own childhood experiences as the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, a noted American director. She recalls sampling all the gelato flavours on a Milanese hotel's room service menu, a trip to Italy or a helicopter ride and though Coppola said there was a "personal connection" to the film, she denied it was autobiography. Rather she based the character of Cleo on a friend's daughter whose parents work in Hollywood and used her own experiences to relate to the character and add a realistic touch. Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit (1968) has also been noted as an influence. Meanwhile, the parental focus of the film developed because Coppola had recently had her second child. Coppola said that she thought of Dorff to play Marco early while writing the film, because he had an aura of “the bad-boy actor,” but also “this really sweet, sincere side.”
Coppola wanted a minimalist look for the film, especially after the mixed reactions to her richly costumed and set Marie Antoinette. The overall effect was to be “sweet and genuine but without being sappy.” For the visual style she discussed Bruce Weber's Hollywood portraits and Helmut Newton's of models at the Chateau Marmont, and Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1980), a film by Chantal Akerman about the routine of a Belgian housewife, with Harris Savides, the cinematographer. He said, "“The main thing was to tell the story really simply and let it play out in long beats and have the audience discover the moment." Coppola used the lenses that her father had filmed Rumble Fish (1983) with in an effort to give the film a more period look, although it is set in the present.
Before filming began Dorff, Fanning and Lala Sloatman (who plays Marco's ex-wife) improvised meals and fights to understand the family's dynamic. Dorff also collected Fanning from school and they spent an afternoon together to bond. Dorff stayed in the Chateau Marmont during principal photography, making it easier to get to the set and understand the character. Coppola also showed Dorff Paper Moon (1973) during production.
Filming took place in Los Angeles and Italy in June and July 2009. Benicio del Toro, Erin Wasson and members of the band Rooney have cameos in the film. In a feature for the New York Times website, Coppola discussed making the scene when Marco visits a special effects studio. She said she initially was unsure of how to approach it, but Savides did a long, slow zoom in which captures his breathing and creates a sense of claustrophobia. Despite many takes, Dorff was a "good sport", she said. The sound of the phone ringing was added by Sarah Flack, the editor, and it hints that Marco has been forgotten.
Somewhere was first shown at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2010 and it was released in Italy on the same day. On September 11, at the festival's close the jury unanimously awarded Somewhere the Golden Lion, the festival's prize for the best overall film. Quentin Tarantino, president of the jury, said the film "grew and grew in our hearts, in our minds, in our affections" after the first screening. Focus Features distributed Somewhere in North America and most other territories. Pathé released the film in France on 5 January 2011, while Tohokushinsha distributed it in Japan. Medusa Film has rights in Italy. Somewhere was released on 10 December 2010 in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, and on 22 December in North America.
The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Sight and Sound magazine, published by the British Film Institute, described Somewhere as a film "going round in circles" and noted that many viewers would "write off Coppola's film as the whinging of the privileged", but also acknowledged "a delicate portrait of a still-maturing pre-teen daughter". During the 2010 National Board of Review Awards, Sofia Coppola was given the Special Filmmaking Achievement Award for writing, directing and producing Somewhere.
Rotten Tomatoes, a review compilation website, reports that 72% of critics have given the film a positive review with an average score of 6.5/10, based on a survey of 162 reviews. It summarises critical opinion as: "It covers familiar territory for Sofia Coppola, but Somewhere remains a hypnotic, seductively pensive meditation on the nature of celebrity, anchored by charming performances from Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning". Metacritic, by comparison, assigned the film an average score of 67/100, based on 40 reviews from mainstream critics.
Roger Ebert, writing in the Chicago Sun Times, awarded the film four stars out of four and praised the detail in the portrait of Marco, saying "Coppola is a fascinating director. She sees, and we see exactly what she sees." A.O. Scott in the New York Times called the film "exquisite, melancholy and formally audacious" and said "This is not a matter of imitation, but rather of mastery, of finding — by borrowing if necessary — a visual vocabulary suited to the story and its environment. If you pay close attention, “Somewhere” will show you everything." Peter Bradshaw disagreed in The Guardian, awarding the film two stars from five. He praised the cinematic technique but said that the film resembled Lost in Translation too closely, lacked emotional depth and that even on second viewing "the question of why we should really care or be interested remains tantalisingly unanswered" the final shot failed to solve any emotional problems and "really is one of the daftest things I have seen for a long time." On BBC Radio 5 Live, Mark Kermode also gave a negative review, calling it "unbelievably self-indulgent and boring."
Allociné, a French cinema website, calculated a mean score of 2.9 stars out of 5 from twenty-six press reviews. Le Monde, a leading French newspaper, positively reviewed the film, saying Somewhere was Coppola's most minimalist and daring film. Coppola's films, it said, deal with "the delicate irony of the delinquency of a universe of the happy few", which is both to her credit to her and a ghost which haunts her, a loyalty ensareing her. France 24 said the "virtuosity of Coppola is also in her keeping empathy for the characters without pouring out mushy sentiment."
In its debut weekend in the United States, the film opened in seven theatres with $119,086, averaging $17,012 per cinema. As of February 2011, it has grossed $1,785,645 in the United States and USD$13,936,909 worldwide. In the United Kingdom, Somewhere went on limited release to sixty two cinemas, it earned £126,000 in the first weekend, of 10 December 2010. Its average per screen, £2,026, was higher than Coppola's earlier small film openings, Marie Antoinette (2006) and The Virgin Suicides (1999). However, it was a lesser total taking and judged a poor commercial performance for the film. In France, Somewhere earned 401 511 EUR in the three weeks to 25 January 2011.
Phoenix, a French indie band, contributed the score of the film. Coppola is the girlfriend of Thomas Mars, the band's singer, she liked the songs "Love Like a Sunset Part I" and "Love Like a Sunset Part II" and requested the band do similar music for the film.
In 2010, the film score for Somewhere was produced by Phoenix. Save the Strokes's song during the poolside scene, the score is diegetic, i.e. the music comes from within the fictional world: Cleo ice-skates to Gwen Stefani, the twins pole-dance to the Foo Fighters.
