Oh Grow Up

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2004)

Sofia Coppola needs a little more life experience. Maybe then she won't need to commit the typical 20-something Other Woman mistake - portraying the wife a one-dimensional shrew in order to justify the husband's philandering. And maybe with a little more experience she'll feel confident enough to let her female lead step out from behind the big poofy, collagen-injected lips. Coppola claims to have been influenced by Godard, among others, but I wonder, what does that mean? Innovation? Imagination? progress? Sorry, all I see is the same old Hollywood pandering. Oh well Sofia. You're young, after all. You made a lot of money, you won the Big Gold Trophy. Maybe someday you'll be comfortable enough to make the film that is really in you without the requisite Tinseltown trappings.