Somewhere (2010)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/ Director: Sofia Coppola

Cinematographer: Harris Savides

Composers: Phoenix

Cast: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Chris Pontius

A famous actor, surrounded by sycophants and hangers-on, suffering from privilege-induced ennui, who spends his free time drinking, partying, and bedding random women, all done without conviction or any real passion or pleasure, spends a few weeks looking after and getting to know his eleven-year-old daughter, and slowly wakes up to the state that his life is in, in Coppola’s hypnotic and gently moving character study, which falls just a little short of her similarly themed Lost in Translation (2003). Iain.Stott