Priscilla (2023)

	Directed by: Sofia Coppola	COUNTRY USA GENRE Biographical drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Priscilla RUNNING TIME 114 minutes
	Produced by: Sofia Coppola Youree Henley Lorenzo Mieli
	Written by: Sofia Coppola

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Priscilla Presley	Cailee Spaeny
Elvis Presley	Jacob Elordi
Paul Beaulieu	Ari Cohen	-
Ann Beaulieu	Dagmara Dominczyk	-
Vernon Presley	Tim Post	-
Grandma "Dodger"	Lynne Griffin	-

Review

Priscilla is a far more condensed and controlled look at the life of Elvis Presley than Baz Luhrman’s Elvis, and this time we view it all from the perspective of Elvis' would-be wife Priscilla, who starts out as a shy, impressionable 14-year-old and ends up, well, a shy, impressionable 20-something. Sofia Coppola, the director, has a clear vision and a wonderful command of her craft, and along with the fine casting choices of Jacob Elordi as Elvis and Cailee Spaeny in the title role, the picture transports you vividly back to a magnificent-looking 1950s, with its perpetually sparkling clean cars and decent girls in cute little dresses. Coppola is out to portray the restricted life Priscilla lived at Graceland under Elvis’ controlling but also loving care. However, like Luhrman’s film, also this one might as well have been titled Elvis instead of Priscilla, because it is his character that is under scrutiny here. Mrs. Presley, on the other hand, always stays a comfortable cushion away from analysis. She’s looked at superficially, like the pretty little girl Elvis himself viewed her as, which may of course be Coppola’s point in calling out what she believes was a vacant world to live in. But it arguably isn’t the only possible point of view for a film about one of the 20th century’s most famous couples.