Somewhere – DVD

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 19-04-2011

Details: Amazon.ca Director Sofia Coppola’s career to date exemplifies the adage to “write what you know.” For her fourth feature, Francis Ford Coppola’s youngest child focuses on a famous man and his daughter. Actor Johnny Marco (a surprisingly poignant Stephen Dorff) stays in Tinseltown’s Chateau Marmont while promoting his latest picture. When he isn’t attending press junkets, he smokes, sleeps around, and hires blonde twins who pole-dance for his entertainment (they bring their own collapsible poles). At a party, he gets so drunk he falls and breaks his wrist. Into this adult scenario, his ex-wife drops off 11-year-old Cleo (Elle Fanning) for a visit. Despite the state of suspended adolescence in which he drifts, Johnny gets a kick out of this well-behaved kid, who skates like a champ and cooks like a pro. If Cleo doesn’t quite worship her delinquent dad, she enjoys his co