We could start out this post by making a joke about how Sofia Coppola somehow made a sequel to Agent Elvis (or a prequel to Bubba Ho-Tep), but this trailer for Priscilla is just too damn pretty for us to get up to our usual tricks. Plenty of blood and ink will soon be spilled about this movie, so we’ll save the analysis of the controversy or whatnot until people beyond Venice attendees get a chance to see it stateside.
And, as luck would have it, Priscilla‘s making its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival later this week, so there’s your reason for A24 dropping this trailer on Tuesday. Will there be enough time to sell plasma for tickets and gas money? We guess it depends on how good the sugar cookies they stock at the center are, but we’re thinking that if you start doing it right now, you might show up to NYFF a few pounds lighter and gaunt, but you’ll be able to see it ASAP.
Peep it:
Here’s the synopsis from the film as taken from the NYFF program:
“Never has there been a more obsessed-over American pop icon than Elvis Presley, yet no one knew him more tenderly during his superstar years than Priscilla Ann Wagner, whose own story as Elvis’s romantic partner and only wife has rarely been told from her perspective. Director Sofia Coppola, who in her remarkable filmography has so often returned to intimate portraits of women living complicated lives behind closed doors, has found a subject exquisitely tailored to her interests.
As portrayed with extraordinary poise and strength by Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla finally becomes the center of her narrative. Coppola follows her love affair with Elvis (an equally revelatory, larger-than-life Jacob Elordi), from her early years as a teenage army brat stationed in West Germany to her surreal arrival at Graceland, which becomes both her home and prison. With her customarily precise attention to texture and detail, Coppola has created one of her most stirring, vivid films, a tribute to a woman who was living in the public eye before she had truly experienced the world. Featuring evocative, moody cinematography by Philippe Le Sourd and original music by Phoenix. An A24 release.”
Priscilla had its world premiere in Venice back in September, and it’ll make a stop at New York before heading to a theater near you on November 3.