#G20, Toronto
Couldn’t resist. I’m sure the films are different. I mean, one has a worn-out actor living in a hotel confronted by the spirit of a younger woman.
Watching the trailer for Sophia Coppola’s Somewhere, three things are apparent: Focus Features feels Marie Antoinette was a big enough failure that they need to plaster the trailer and trailer site with reminders about Lost in Translation and her Academy award; she continues to plumb her childhood and celebrity, which is where she has been most rewarded (LiT) and scorned (MA); and the trailer sums up the feeling of the film almost perfectly, which is to say that eventually watching the film won’t feel much different.
One surprise: this wasn’t shot by her DP Lance Accord (who she seems to share with her ex Spike Jonze the same way divorced parents share custody of their kid). Instead, Harris Savides is behind the camera. His images don’t seem as fleeting as Accord’s or shine as bright (Accord is probably the best natural camera DP on the planet right now), but they’re beautiful nonetheless. His most recent work was Greenberg. He also shot Rachel Getting Married, the 28 Days Later of family relationships and a big fave of mine.
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Paul Dano is the new Bud Cort. Or the non-singing Win Butler. Or perhaps Bud Cort is all three of them. Nevertheless.