An illustrated critical survey of Academy Award–winning writer

and director Sofia Coppola's career, covering everything from her groundbreaking music videos through her latest films

In the two decades since her first feature film was released, Sofia Coppola has created a tonally diverse, meticulously crafted, and unapologetically hyperfeminine aesthetic across a wide range of multimedia work. Her films explore untenable relationships and the euphoria and heartbreak these entail, and Coppola develops these themes deftly and with discernment across her movies and music videos. From The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette to Lost in Translation and The Beguiled, Coppola's award-nominated filmography is also unique in how its consistent visual aesthetic is informed by and in conversation with contemporary fine art and photography.

Sofia Coppola offers a rich and intimate look at the overarching stylistic and thematic components of Coppola's work. In addition to critical essays about Coppola's filmography, the book will include interviews with some of her closest collaborators, including musician Jean-Benoît Dunckel and costume designer Nancy Steiner,

along with a foreword by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher. It engages with her creative output while celebrating her talent as an imagemaker and storyteller. Along the way, readers meet again a cast of characters mired in the ennui of missed connections: loneliness, frustrated creativity, rebellious adolescence, and the double-edged knife of celebrity, all captured by the emotional, intimate power of the female gaze.

本书对奥斯卡获奖作家和导演索菲亚·科波拉（Sofia Coppola）的职业生涯进行了图文并茂的评论调查，涵盖了从她的开创性音乐视频到较新的电影创作等所有内容。

在索菲亚·科波拉的**部故事片上映后的20年里，她在广泛的多媒体作品中创造了一种色调多样、精心制作、毫无愧色的超女性美学。她的电影探讨了难以维持的关系以及这些关系带来的欣喜和心碎，科波拉在她的电影和音乐视频中巧妙地发展了这些主题，并具有敏锐的洞察力。从《女生向前走》和《玛丽·安托瓦内特》到《迷失东京》和《牡丹花下》，科波拉获奖的电影作品在其一贯的视觉美学中也是少有的，并与当代美术和摄影相呼应。

本书对科波拉作品的总体风格和主题成分进行了丰富而深入的研究。除了关于科波拉电影作品的评论文章外，书中还包括对她一些较亲密的合作者的采访，包括音乐家让-贝诺瓦·邓克尔（Jean-Benoît Dunckel）和服装设计师南希·斯坦纳（Nancy Steiner），以及意大利电影人爱丽丝·罗尔瓦彻（Alice Rohrwacher）的序言。本书在赞美她作为图像制作者和讲故事者的才华的同时，也与她的创作成果进行了交流。一路走来，读者再次遇到了一群因错过联系而陷于无聊的人物：孤独、受挫的创造力、叛逆的青春期和名人的双刃刀，所有这些都被女性目光的情感和亲密的力量所捕获。