Priscilla
2023
**½
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Domińczyk, Ari Cohen, Dan Beirne, Olivia Barrett, Tim Post, Lynne Griffin, Luke Humphrey, Rachael Crawford, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Emily Mitchell
14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu meets and falls in love with rock-and-roll icon Elvis Presley. Three years later, she moves into Graceland, but her dreams of romance and glamour turn into a life of isolation under his control. Sofia Coppola's biographical drama suffers from oversaturation, arriving little more than a year after Elvis. While Baz Luhrmann's biopic largely ignored Priscilla, Coppola portrays her life in a gilded cage, showing how she is a woman who has both everything and nothing. The film is beautifully shot and designed, but as a drama, it is disappointingly dull, dreary, and monotonous. Adapted from Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me.
