The Virgin Suicides 1999

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A disarmingly poetic - and specifically female - vision of adolescence that it belongs in a category of its own. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: More than most recent movies about suburban adolescence, The Virgin Suicides catches both the triviality and the grandeur of youth, its prosaic details and its mythopoetic flights. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A very curious and eclectic piece of work. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: This shimmery, darkly comic adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel marks the assured, often inspired feature film debut of writer-director Sofia Coppola. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Worth seeing. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: A surprisingly intricate struggle with absence, grief, and memory. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Tragic, haunting, and sometimes darkly comedic, this movie leaves a strong impression in its telling of a story about the destruction of innocence. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: [Coppola] has the courage to play it in a minor key. She doesn't hammer home ideas and interpretations. She is content with the air of mystery and loss that hangs in the air like bitter poignancy. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Sofia Coppola's adaptation of The Virgin Suicides ... captures the loveliest visuals and bits of language from Eugenides' book and faithfully, but not slavishly, transfers them to the screen. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: The Virgin Suicides captures in stylized vignettes the intertwining strands of innocence, desire and despair in the psyches of teenage girls. Read more

Time Out: The tone of wistful regret and longing doesn't preclude a good deal of gentle humour. It's a restrained, subtly suggestive piece which disintegrates if you try to get a fix on it. Read more

Emanuel Levy, Variety: Sofia Coppola tackles the issue of teenage suicide with an assured treatment in The Virgin Suicides, effectively employing a seriocomic tone. Read more

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Dennis Lim, Village Voice: The film slices through its dizzying succession of events with clean, swift efficiency. Read more