theparallaxreview's video: Somewhere 2010 Trailer

With some judicious editing, Somewhere would make a solid first act to an infinitely better film. It has pair of interesting characters in Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) and his eleven-year-old daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning). It sets up a fairly interesting conflict in the form of their relative estrangement (he's a sometime Dad, full-time movie star who doesn't know enough about her to know she's been figure skating for the past three years) and an interesting premise in the form of bringing together these two characters--one who coasts through a life run entirely by other people, another who is completely self-sufficient. Unfortunately, the film is pretty much killed by writer/director Sofia Coppola's frustrating unwillingness to allow audiences to derive any pleasure from her work. http://www.theparallaxreview.com/in_theatres/somewhere.html