Somewhere

film by Coppola [2010]

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The 2010 film Somewhere is a meditative portrait directed by Sofia Coppola. It focuses on a Hollywood actor and his daughter. The film won the Golden Lion prize for best film at the Venice Film Festival in 2010. Sofia Coppola is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and fashion designer, known for films such as The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation. She is the daughter of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.21

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Sofia Coppola
…2010 she released the film Somewhere, a meditative portrait of a Hollywood actor (Stephen Dorff) and his daughter (Elle Fanning). It won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion prize for best film. In 2011 she married French musician Thomas Mars, and the couple later had two children. In 2013 she…
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…2010 she released the film Somewhere, a meditative portrait of a Hollywood actor (Stephen Dorff) and his daughter (Elle Fanning). It won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion prize for best film. In 2011 she married French musician Thomas Mars, and the couple later had two children. In 2013 she…
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History of film
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Somewhere (2010) received the Golden Lion for best film at Venice, and Coppola took the award for best director at Cannes for her Civil War thriller The Beguiled (2017). Gerwig was an actor as well as filmmaker. After codirecting Nights and Weekends (2008), about a…
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Somewhere (2010) received the Golden Lion for best film at Venice, and Coppola took the award for best director at Cannes for her Civil War thriller The Beguiled (2017). Gerwig was an actor as well as filmmaker. After codirecting Nights and Weekends (2008), about a…
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Elle Fanning
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…(Stephen Dorff) in Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, again earning plaudits for the subtlety of her performance. The following year Fanning gained further prominence with appearances in the sci-fi blockbuster Super 8, directed by J.J. Abrams; Francis Ford Coppola’s horror film Twixt; and the family comedy We Bought a Zoo. Meanwhile, having
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…(Stephen Dorff) in Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, again earning plaudits for the subtlety of her performance. The following year Fanning gained further prominence with appearances in the sci-fi blockbuster Super 8, directed by J.J. Abrams; Francis Ford Coppola’s horror film Twixt; and the family comedy We Bought a Zoo. Meanwhile, having
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