![]() ![]() The glorious look and feel of the outside is juxtaposed with the absolute icy look and feel of the Lisbon house. ![]() That feeling of freedom when you have nothing to do but lay in the backyard in your bikini slathered in baby oil. The dappled sunlight through the trees transported me back to when I was a kid. Man, Coppola, along with her DP Edward Lachman, were certainly able to catch the feeling of summer/fall in this movie. At the beginning, one of the sister’s attempted suicide sets the course for the rest of the film where the girls end up escaping their parents grip the only way they know how. The Lisbon girls are the talk of the Detroit suburban neighborhood they live in, especially by a group of teen boys who regularly get together to discuss them. Lisbon (Kathleen Turner), are very strict Catholics who keep their daughters on such a tight leash, it’s to the point of suffocation. ![]() Their parents, Ronald (James Woods) and Mrs. Based on the most excellent book by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides is the story of the five Lisbon sisters, Therese (17), Mary (16), Bonnie (15), Lux (14), and Cecilia (13). ![]()
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