The Virgin Suicides;

Feeling: Nostalgic.
Wasting Now By: Listening to my boyfriend snore.


I am a huge film-lover with a very specific taste in movies but particularly enjoy dramas, horrors and some of the old classics. My favourite directors are Sofia Coppola and Tim Burton. As an ode to my love of cinema, I will chose a different one of my top movies to post a blog about.
Obviously my all-time favourite has to come first, which has to be The Virgin Suicides starring Kirsten Dunst, James Woods and Kathleen Turner.

I could very easily watch this film four times a day and have done on many occasions. I love the saturated seventies feel to the film, the fashion of the Lisbon sisters and the amazing score by Air.

Based upon the book by Jeffery Eugenides (Which is also my favourite book, which I've re-read a dozen times over the years), this film tells the story of five sisters, seen through the eyes of the neighbourhood boys who have developed a fascination with the mysterious girls. From the youngest girls suicide, to fourteen year old Lux's sexcapades, to the oppression of the sister's parents, the boys watch adoringly, becoming increasingly obsessed with the girls, and dreaming of helping them escape from the world they are trapped in.

I love everything about this film, and no matter how many times I see it, it never fails to get me thinking. Every shot is like a piece of art. My favourite part is where we see the home, where the girls are locked away by their strict mother, change over time, in a sped-up shot of the house. Simply beautiful.

I also love films that are open to individual interpretation, and would love any comments from fellow fans of this movie. Why do you think the girls killed themselves, when the chance to get away was so easily within their grasp?

Although I would probably say I prefer the book, this film has had an ever-lasting, hypnotic effect that has haunted me since the day I got it and I celebrate that fact in this post..my tribute blog to The Virgin Suicides.