SOMEWHERE (2010)

Somewhere (2010)

Genre: Drama

Director: Sofia Coppola

Writer: Sofia Coppola

Stars: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning and Chris Pontius

My score 3.5/5

If you are already a fan of Sophia Copolla’s work ‘Somewhere’ will not come to you as a surprise. It’s just slow as the real life itself but strongly emotional with that much natural acting and storytelling. Hardly any dramatic lines or untrue to life hyper events, ‘Somewhere’ is just a mere reflection of dull reality of living.

Johnny Marco (Played by Stephen Dorff- Public Enemies) is a Hollywood actor. Though his fame surrounds him to the brim, in side he is just a beaten up lonely soul. His wife is not with him anymore and he is missing not spending quality time with his daughter. Just spending lonely nights while hooking up with random over night girls his life seems to be out of place and has no meaning. But once his daughter returns to her and he gets to spend some time with her he realize that his life needs a change. And that change seems complicated. 

‘Somehwere’ is a painfully slow movie. If you can live the first few minutes you will realize how slow and boring it can be. But it screams of the life of the main character and let you live his insides. As a fan if you do not open up your mind and heart to the story and place yourself right in the middle of it there is a fair chance that you will walk out after the 20 mts. But if you hang on the story it starts to make a little sense but don’t expect it to be a 007 ride. 

Johnny Marco is a lonely soul. With the random acts of his day it just purely rectifies his mistakes. At times he just fall asleep watching pole dancers in his bedroom and at time he randomly follow a blond in a Mercedes until she disappear. At times he is amongst his fans and giving interviews to the TV and attending international movie awards but all of those does not bring him peace and fill his cup. Maybe the reality is not that pretty after all for the famous. 

‘Somehwere’ is a drama. And in the pure meaning of drama it is. It has a simple story line yet powerful performance and delivery. At the end of it you might feel something different than me. Maybe you will scold me if you watch it after reading this review. Or maybe you will recommend it to someone else. Either way you will be a part of a good movie experience and you will not be blamed for living the Sophia Copolla magic. 

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