![]() ![]() Critical response on the festival circuit, with some reservation, has been uniformly enthused about watching a talent in the making, evident from the film’s elevation of a slight narrative into a visual feast compelled by careful craftsmanship. Palo Alto debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in August 2013, played the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in September 2013, the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014, and screened most recently as the Centerpiece Program at the San Francisco International Film Festival in early May, its penultimate festival screening before opening theatrically. Now Sofia’s niece Gia Coppola picks up her kin’s craft to present a sensuous portrait of disaffected youth in her accomplished feature debut Palo Alto(2013), based on James Franco’s eponymous collection of short stories. Hinton double-take with The Outsiders and Rumblefish, and Sofia Coppola scored the opulent courts of the French aristocracy with a youthful rock and roll vibe in Marie Antoinette(2006). Read two critical perspectives on PALO ALTO (2014, Gia Coppola), from Michael Guillén and Tien-Tien Jong.Įach generation feels the need to express in their own way the tumultuous transition from late adolescence into early adulthood, that time when-as Joni Mitchell phrased it-”cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town.” It’s a familiar narrative made all the more true for being told again and again, generation after generation, and especially notable when said generations are of a filmmaking family such as the Coppolas.
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