The Virgin Suicides

Part of The Loft Cinema’s summer series, 1999! BEST. MOVIE. YEAR. EVER.

This screening is co-presented by ZIA RECORDS! Enter our free raffle to win the Virgin Suicides soundtrack on vinyl and Zia gift cards! Must be present to win.

Copies of the acclaimed book, Best. Movie. Year. Ever. How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery, will be available for sale at the box-office during this series!

“A disarmingly poetic vision of adolescence that belongs in a category of its own.” – Moira MacDonald. Seattle Times

With this stunning debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s highly acclaimed first novel, The Virgin Suicides conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents—as told through the collective memory of a group of men who were boys at the time and still yearn to understand what happened. Evoking its 1970s suburban setting through ethereal cinematography and an atmospheric score by Air, and featuring a magnetic performance by Kirsten Dunst, the film secured a place for its director in the landscape of American independent cinema and has become a coming-of-age touchstone. (Dir. by Sofia Coppola, 1999, USA, 97 mins., Rated R)