Somewhere (film)

• Stephen Dorff: Johnny Marco
• Elle Fanning: Cleo
• Chris Pontius: Sammy
• Laura Chiatti: Sylvia
• Lala Sloatman: Layla
• Ellie Kemper: Claire
• Michelle Monaghan: Rebecca

Somewhere is a film directed by Sofia Coppola. It had its premiere on 3 September 2010 at the Film Festival in Venice, where he was awarded on 11 September the Golden Lion.

The film was launched on November 11, 2010 in the German cinemas.

Action

The actor Johnny Marco is in his thirties and going after a few successful films rather lackluster after his work. With its sports car he is aimlessly on the highways in Los Angeles go. At his doctoral appointments he needs to be reminded of his agent regularly. An arm injury he sustained in a fall of stairs at a party, he cured from the famous Chateau Marmont. There he tries to compensate for his loneliness and boredom by parties, alcohol and one- night stands. But he falls asleep even with the performances of two pole dance dancers, he ordered to his room, a.

Structure in his life, Johnny receives the unexpected visit by his eleven year old daughter Cleo, who comes from a long failed relationship. After her mother Layla wants to take care of themselves, Cleo shares a long time her father's life. Critically, they screened the volatile woman acquaintances of her father, but does not blame him. Both spend their time unspectacular with video games or sunbathing by the pool, and for Johnny to face a few moments of happiness. In a televised ceremony in Italy, he is accompanied by his daughter. Besides, he comes to the realization that he himself is actually a child and finally has to grow up. In a telephone conversation with Cleo's mother, he breaks down and confesses that he has " nothing " is. While Johnny's character begins to change slowly, Cleo is leaving to summer camp. Johnny falls into a deep sadness. He checked out of the hotel and drives off with his Ferrari. On a country road he gets out, can stand the car and continue on foot.

Reviews

The film was received favorably to German critics at its premiere at the International Film Festival in Venice. Thematically Coppola would build on their success film Lost in Translation.

The emptiness and the resting time would " make almost physically tangible ," the director says Susanne Ostwald ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung). Although Somewhere not aufwarte with a " startling original (s) narrative idea" that it was a " wonderful film ". Peter Zander (The World ) also remarked that Coppola " wonderfully laconic in long, slow sequences" watch their figures. Tobias Kniebe (Süddeutsche Zeitung) spoke of a " definitive ( n ), to -the-minute ( n ) study of those global insanity circus [ ... ] we have constructed around the idea of prominence around." It is a film about a generation that would have been all too easily done, " a movie about it, what absolute, existential fatigue may hide behind the face that we show all the world every day. " Michael Althen ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) remarked that it was the trick Coppola, then enter if " it has already gone wrong." " As relationships succeed or could only go wrong, is not it ( Coppola ) topic ". More and deeper than described in Somewhere was " the sad life of stardom hardly ". For Marco smoke the plot structure is ... not particularly original, but it is the way such as Sofia Coppola tells her story and how their characters by moving through, making the film still to some things. Susan Vahabzadeh said in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: " Someday, when the generation who belongs to the 39 -year-old Coppola, looks back on her life, you might be able to recognize what it is for a great chronicler. "

Production

Filming took place in Los Angeles and Italy in June and July 2009.

Apparently flowed Coppola's own experiences as the daughter of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the presentation of the film with a. Federico Fellini's Toby Damnit, too, and Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon are said to have influenced the film.

Sofia Coppola wanted to show the contrast between the world of show business Johnny Marcos and that of her daughter claims to be. " The girl stands for truth in a world where nothing is real." Coppola had figures interested, located in a transitional phase. " That moment where they need to go more in themselves and cut themselves off from the outside world, this phase interests me ." As in her Oscar - winning film Lost in Translation, the story is from Somewhere in a hotel. Coppola, who spent as the daughter of film director Francis Ford Coppola himself a lot of time in hotels, this feels as a " world in itself " and " places of transition" that are appropriate for their characters, as they also were in the transition.

Publication

Focus Features will release the film in North America and in most other countries. Exceptions are France ( Pathé ), Japan ( Tohokushinsha film) and Germany, where the film of Tobis film is distributed. Official Germany Start Somewhere was 11 November 2010. Somewhere in the U.S. only came on December 22, 2010 in the cinemas.