![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sofia Coppola keeps her teen subjects distanced and quiet in a way that feels authentic to their age and isolation, but also strategically minimalist on paper. Just as the Lisbon girls’ collective trauma is a mystery to their classmates, parents, and neighbors, it’s also a mystery to viewers. The film is built on the silences between the teenagers, and their inability to vocalize their feelings. The Virgin Suicides is filled with moments of fumbling for words: making small talk on the dance floor, brooding at the dinner table, touching hands in the darkness of a classroom. The girls call back with “Alone Again (Naturally),” with the boys responding with The Bee Gees’ “Run To Me,” and suddenly a very real conversation begins to happen between the teenagers, entirely through music. After hearing a single “hello,” they drop the needle on Todd Rundgren’s “Hello, It’s Me,” holding the receiver up to the turntable speakers. There’s a scene in The Virgin Suicides in which the neighborhood boys, who have long lingered on the sidelines of the Lisbon sisters’ lives, reach out to the girls over the phone. ![]()
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