this is the first time i saw you,
you acted as Mary Corleone in The Godfather part 3,
one of The Godfather trilogy, your father’s masterpiece, the greatest movies of all time
you was shoot at the last scene, I cried at the same time as Al Pacino were crying silently in the movie
after watching the movie i kept silent for few days,

in fact i have watched The Virgin Suicides while i was in France,
but it was just by a mistake, i don’t even know your name and at that time i didn’t watch the Godfather yet
The Virgin Suicides just gave me a curiosuity, it was a mad movie i said at that time.

later on, when i returned back to Cambodia,
i got The Godfather trilogy DVD,
they said you acted very bad in The Godfather 3,
but for me, i loved the image that you gave to the screen,

then in 2004 i found something really really close to you
Lost in Translation, lost in Tokyo, lost in you
i found the movie was very cute and understandable,
even the characters themself are still lost
we understand your message, you found a secret way to communicate with audiences
it’s your original story, it’s your original screenplay

a lot of people feel the same way, they love Lost in Translation
and that what made you won the Academy award for original screenplay
and that brought Lost in Translation became the Academy Award-winning for best picture, including Bill Murray that won Academy Award for best actor

this is the particulary scene that i love the most from Lost in Translation,
when Charlotte looked at the window, and sometime she just sat there near the window … just to watch the city.

i not yet watch Marie Antoinette,
it is not become i can’t find the DVD,
i still don’t know why ..
maybe it’s not the time to watch it yet
or maybe i will never watch it,

Find more about cinema of Sofia Coppola at Senses of Cinema
by Anna Rogers who is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh writing on the cinema of Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant.

Sofia Coppola

Official website of Lost in Translation :

http://www.lost-in-translation.com/

The last scene from The Godfather part 3