![]() ![]() I think Hello Kitty hadn’t come to America yet. I remember discovering things that hadn’t come to America. I was small, but I remember when I was eight we took a trip to Kyoto and we had Christmas here. My parents liked to come here, so when we were little we went on trips. Where did your fascination with Japan come from? I still feel like I never quite understand everything about it. Even though I’ve been here a lot, I still always feel excited to discover new places. I still feel like I need someone to help show me around. I love Tokyo and I never get tired of it, so I’m happy to be here, and I saw a friend yesterday that I’ve known since before working on Lost in Translation. How does it feel to be here, so many years after directing Lost in Translation? At the time of the interview, she’d just wrapped up shooting the film in Louisiana and was planning to edit it after leaving Tokyo. Moody music, sensuous settings, slightly dishevelled and yet perfectly attired heroines, and always spot-on casting are some of the characteristics of her productions, making them catnip for creative types, who often mention her work as a source of inspiration.Ĭoppola, who is also behind a video made in collaboration with Cartier to celebrate the relaunch of the label’s Panthère watch, was in Cannes last month to debut her most recent creation, The Beguiled, starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. Her films – from her debut, The Virgin Suicides, to Marie Antoinette and The Bling Ring – are intriguing as much for their storylines as for their visual impact and languid atmosphere. Whether it’s her friendship with Marc Jacobs, her widely copied, Parisian-inflected personal style, or her industry credentials (as a young girl, she interned for Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel and decades later guest-edited an issue of Vogue Paris), Coppola has always straddled the worlds of the silver screen and high fashion with great aplomb, keeping a kind of aloofness and indie cred that make her stand out as a director’s director. The diminutive Coppola, who was in Tokyo to participate in the unveiling of a high-jewellery collection from Cartier, is fashion’s favourite filmmaker. It thus felt quite surreal when, on a chilly evening last autumn, we met Coppola in a bar overlooking Tokyo’s skyline at one of the city’s swanky hotels (it wasn’t her beloved Park Hyatt, another benefactor of the still-strong influence of the film, whose most poignant scenes take place within that property). ![]()
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