Priscilla
Summary
Just last year , the King of Rock and Roll pick up a biopic bursting with life , but asElvistook awards time of year by tempest , another movie featuring the prolific music artist was in yield . Serdica Coppola ’s follow - up to 2020’sOn the Rocksadapts Priscilla Presley ’s 1985 memoirElvis and Me , focusing on the char behind the picture , who became one in her own right . Priscillais another masterwork from Coppola , a field of study of a cleaning woman in a gilded cage and her journey to exemption with two central performances that will go down as some of the good in Coppola ’s entire filmography .
Priscillais certain to earn comparisons toElvis , but , within her own torso of body of work , many will look toMarie Antoinetteas a sort of companion piece to her elegantly hushed biopic . The plastic film begins when Priscilla ( Cailee Spaeny ) is still in high shoal , study in Germany while live with her family . She is just 14 when she meetsElvis ( Jacob Elordi ) , who is 24 at the time and function in the armed forces . Priscilla is quickly sweep up into Elvis ’s orbit , brought to his rented German dwelling by ally where she is thrust into an unfamiliar yet entice world . Spaeny play unseasoned Priscilla with a soft naïveté that is underscored but steely oddity . She knows what she want — or at least , she thinks she does .
None of this would make without Elordi ’s slinky performance . Where Austin Butler ’s Oscar - nominated spell as Elvis was tumid and borderline cantonment ( and has extended beyond film as Butler continue to apply the emphasis in public appearances ) , Elordi ’s Elvis is seductive and quietly forbidding . He ’s bashful when around Priscilla , but there are flashing of something dreary that complicates his relationship with Priscilla and gives aside his pauperism for dominance , both in Elvis ' secret and public life . It seems Elordi has learn from the more open iniquity of hisEuphoriacharacter Nate Jacobs , get way for something much more insidious but just as unsettling . watch Priscilla respond and accommodate to this is part of what make her journey in the cinema all the more challenging .
It ’s an problematic journeying , but Spaeny gives it her all . When she come at Graceland , Coppola ’s movie becomes almost claustrophobic , the shots underscore the wall that surround her . Elvis ' bedroom is sour , practically a cave , and the couple expend wad of time there . As Elvis disappears for months at a sentence , though , Graceland begins to feel more like a prison than a palace . This seems to be where the company withMarie Antoinetteis most apparent — two young women brought to unfamiliar worlds and perched like prizes within their respective palace . Where Marie refuses to leave , though , Priscilla yearns for the outside world .
Spaeny is a Book of Revelation and with the assistant of the film ’s pilus and makeup team , Priscilla ’s outgrowth from a Energy Department - eyed and amiable young girl to a woman with agency who sleep with what she needs is manifest in every inch of her performance . As New York minute of Elvis bring out a darker side to the fabled performing artist , Spaeny ’s eyes are both dread and weary before a steely sort of resolve take over in the film ’s final scene . It ’s a star - making turn , one that certainly merit award recognition , as does Elordi ’s turn as Elvis . Their alchemy is palpable which pays dividend when their inevitable end come .
Coppola ’s idea of freedom is not some nervy display of break and that ’s where she finds the looker in Priscilla ’s chronicle . Despite its display of power imbalances , manipulation , and straight-out maltreatment , Priscillais ultimately a news report about a girl coming into her own as a adult female , light upon who she is despite the life history around her insisting that she is just a replaceable cog in a celebrity car . Priscilla refuses to be brought down by Elvis ' notion and his eventual toxic behaviour , shown briefly towards the ending of the film . It ’s not about him or his ending , though . In a direction , Priscilladoesn’t have an ending at all . It ends with a new beginning for the woman who lived in Elvis ' shadow for so long .
Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla.
Priscillareleases in nationwide theaters on November 3 . The film is 113 minutes retentive and rated universal gas constant for drug use and some language .
base on the memoir written by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon , Priscilla is a life history - drama that follows the titular adult female through the journey that was her and Elvis Presley ’s relationship . From the import they meet at a company through their marriage , Priscilla takes viewer through the eyes of the devotee through the high and low of their kinship .
Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi in Priscilla.
Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla.
