Sofia Coppola's SOMEWHERE trailer is released

In the past years, Sofia Coppola has held her own as a filmmaker, even in the shadow of her legendary father Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather). She's made such critically acclaimed films as The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation, and was the first American woman to be nominated in the Best Director category in the Academy Awards. She also won Best Original Screenplay at the 2003 Academy Awards for Lost in Translation. Here's the trailer for her upcoming film Somewhere.

Here's what it's about: Johnny Marco is a bad-boy A-list actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Chateau Marmont Hotel. Cocooned in this artificial world, Johnny has lost all sense of his true self. Until, that is, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo shows up and begins to anchor him. Johnny’s fragile connection to real life slowly revives in her presence. So when the time comes for Cleo to leave, his sense of loss is palpable, but the gift of hope she has also brought him leads to a beautiful denouement.

Sounds and looks a bit like Lost in Translation, but should be good nonetheless. I enjoy Coppola's work, and am excited to see how the young Elle Fanning (Dakota Fanning's sister) does in this film.

-MV