Sofia Coppola Misses Priscilla NYFF Appearance to Be with Mom Eleanor, ‘to Whom the Film Is Dedicated’

Sofia Coppola missed a New York Movie Competition look for her film Priscilla with a view to spend time along with her mother Eleanor Coppola.

On Friday, Priscilla stars Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi spoke at a press convention in New York Metropolis, the place producer Youree Henley learn a written assertion from Sofia, 52, relating to her absence.

“I am so proud to have our movie on the New York Movie Competition in my hometown. There’s nothing extra inspiring to me than seeing a movie on a display at Alice Tully Corridor,” Sofia stated in that assertion. “Once I noticed The Energy of the Canine right here as the primary movie on a [theater] display because the pandemic, it jogged my memory of the ability of cinema and what we love concerning the communal expertise.”

“I am so sorry to not be there with you, however I am with my mom, to whom this movie is devoted,” she added.

A rep for Sofia had no additional remark.

Sofia, who made her feature-length directorial debut with 1999’s The Virgin Suicides, is the youngest of Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Jessie Coppola’s three youngsters.

Francis, 84, is called the director behind The Godfather films and 1979’s Apocalypse Now. Eleanor, 87, is a filmmaker and author identified for behind-the-scenes documentaries about her members of the family’ works, specifically 1991’s Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.

Eleanor has additionally directed documentaries relating to the making of Sofia’s Virgin Suicides and 2006’s Marie Antoinette. She most lately made two narrative films, 2016’s Paris Can Wait and 2020’s Love Is Love Is Love, in accordance with her IMDb.

Eleanor has additionally printed two nonfiction books: Notes: The Making of Apocalypse Now and Notes on a Life, which examines her and Francis’s life collectively.

“I do know from my household what it’s wish to be inside a present enterprise household,” Sofia instructed The Hollywood Reporter in August, as she and Priscilla Presley spoke concerning the new film, which is predicated on Priscilla’s 1985 ebook Elvis and Me.

“I do know that rising up, individuals are taking a look at you otherwise. And likewise residing in a home with my dad, this large persona, an excellent artist and a number of our life revolving round that,” she stated.

“And seeing my mother’s life, how she was looking for her method inside his, I may relate to that,” she added.

Apart from Sofia, Eleanor and Francis additionally share son Roman Coppola, 58, and Gian-Carlo Coppola, who died at 22 in 1986 after a boating accident in Maryland, per The Washington Submit.

Sofia lately instructed W Journal how she linked to Priscilla’s story and the way it associated to her personal mom’s experiences.

“In truth, I used to be by no means that fascinated about Elvis. I appreciated that he was dedicated to type, however his persona didn’t intrigue me on the time. I used to be so impressed that Priscilla left Elvis,” she stated.. “She was all the time attempting to be his fantasy, his excellent girl.”

“I take into consideration my mother’s era and the way exhausting it was to be impartial,” the writer-director continued. “Ladies with none energy or cash at the moment had nothing once they left their husbands. Priscilla had braveness, and that appeared, to me, to be a common theme.”

Priscilla is in theaters Nov. 3.