The Virgin Suicides (DVD)

Set in the 70's the Virgin Suicides is told from a group of boys who loved and worshiped the mysterious Lisbon sisters. The Lisbon sisters Lux (Kirsten Dunst), Cecilia (Hanna Hall), Bonnie (Chelse Swain), Mary (A.J. Cook) and Therese (Leslie Hayman) are basically perfect. They are all beautiful and also all unattainable. They all live with their strict, overprotective mother (Kathleen Turner) and their weak willed father (James Woods). One day the youngest of the Lisbon sisters, Cecilia slits her wrist. She survives. The psychiatrist (Danny DeVito) suggests that the girls should have a party so they can mix with some members of the opposite sex, which they have been ...  Read the complete review

I confess that I'm not one of those people who read the book before watching the adapted film, yet "The Virgin Suicides" (based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides) is nothing short of a wonderful film, and is certainly one to watch when you're fed up of the usual gangster or teen horror related films that are clogging up the aisles at your local video shop. The film blends an interesting mix of dark comedy with drama, as we are invited into the lives of the five Lisbon sisters, who are the object of the affections of a group of neighbourhood boys. The film is narrated by one of the boys (whose voice is played by Giovanni Ribisi) who tells the ...  Read the complete review

Mr and Mrs Lisbon and their five daughters have a seemingly perfect existence in their middle class suburb. All five girls are beautiful, and, being close in age, are very sisterly, attracting attention from all red-blooded males at school. Then Cecilia commits suicide for no apparent reason, impaling herself on the fence outside the Lisbon house. From thereon, the girls are kept under lock and key, much to the intrigue of four of their male contemporaries, who try to reach out to the girls in their hour of need. Will the girls ever regain their freedom? Or are they doomed to remain fantasies? Directed by Sofia Coppola and based on the book of the same title ...  Read the complete review

For a film consumed by death you are unlikely to find many others that teach you so much about life. In her breakthrough writing/directing roll Sophia Coppola (daughter of Francis Ford) has produced a masterful and artistic vision of 70s life. Set in a period were 'Trip Fontaine' could be considered a serious name, and phrases like 'You're the stone fox' and 'Peach Snapps, babes love it' could still fly, Coppola constructs a subtle but dark tale about what it is to grow up amidst tragedy and suppression. We are led through this story by the recollections of our narrator, who is one of a group of boys obsessed by the 5 Lisbon sisters, his reflective tone that ...  Read the complete review

"The Virgin Suicides" is simply one of my favourite films. I recently wrote a review on the movie “Dick” which starred Kirsten Dunst who is also in this movie. I thought it would balance things out as far as Kirsten’s acting goes, her performance in this couldn’t be more contrasting. “Dick” was even made in the same year. This was probably one of the first reviews I ever wrote for dooyoo, yet it never got posted. Why? Well I don’t think I could particularly write a good review it deserved. I happened to have found this review on an old floppy disk so I read it over and couldn’t believe the rubbish that I ...  Read the complete review