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It\u2019s been over a year since Baz Luhrmann\u2019s Graceland-backed Elvis Presley biopic hit cinemas.<\/p>\n
The Oscar-nominated biopic starring Austin Butler as The King has 77 per cent positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n
However, the Priscilla movie \u2013 based on Priscilla Presley\u2019s memoir Elvis and Me and which failed to get permission to use the star\u2019s back catalogue \u2013 has 95 per cent positive reactions from critics after the movie\u2019s premiere at the Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n
The A24 movie is directed by Sofia Coppola and stars Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla and Jacob Elordi as Elvis.<\/p>\n
And here are some of the first reviews praising the movie for \u201cnot sugarcoating\u201d the truth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Rolling Stone Daily Telegraph The Times Total Film Hollywood Reporter Variety The Guardian Vanity Fair Independent Although not everyone was a fan:<\/p>\n Evening Standard Priscilla is released in select UK cinemas on Boxing Day and widely on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] It\u2019s been over a year since Baz Luhrmann\u2019s Graceland-backed Elvis Presley biopic hit cinemas. The Oscar-nominated biopic starring Austin Butler as The King has 77 per cent positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. However, the Priscilla movie \u2013 based on Priscilla Presley\u2019s memoir Elvis and Me and which failed to get permission to use the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>People may fault Coppola for dipping her toe in familiar terrain, but it\u2019s hard to argue with the result: a transportive, heartbreaking journey into the dark heart of celebrity, and her finest film since Lost in Translation.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The film\u2019s signature move is poking around the strange psychological grey space between being kept and being caught.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Elvis fans will undoubtedly be appalled. But, well, they\u2019ll always have Luhrmann.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>An intriguing tale of burning love, toxic fame, and outgrowing dreams, Priscilla should please fans and entertain newcomers.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>An impeccable union of director and subject.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The film ushers us right into Graceland (you really feel like you\u2019re there), showing us what happened, just as it happened, without sweetener or frills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/strong>This film says a great deal about Elvis and the dysfunctional business he was in and Priscilla\u2019s modest integrity and courage.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Priscilla is neither lurid nor sugar coated. It\u2019s a sensitive, if slight, look at a young woman rousing from a dream and confronting waking life.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>In her own coolly analytical way, Coppola makes some trenchant points about the way Priscilla is controlled by the men in her life.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Priscilla\u2019s story is well known and audiences have most recently seen her depicted in Baz Luhrman\u2019s Elvis biopic. So what can the filmmaker add to Priscilla\u2019s story? The short answer is: not much.<\/p>\n