I have just watched it, and I agree with everyone about the Coppola segment. And it got me thinking 'why would a great director willingly make a bad short film?' And then I noticed Sophia Copolla's name in the credits. And I read in other reviews here that she has co-written the script and designed the clothes.
Life without Zoe is about a girl of absent, albeit, talented parents. She is affluent but growing up alone because her parents have to spend a lot of time abroad for their creative jobs. She has a soft spot for her father. She parents her parents.
I am thinking that this project is a personal bonding experience and a hands-on little film school, a gift from a father to his daughter perhaps? And If this is the case, I find it sweet and bold and remarkable.
Then I am thinking how much I did not like Sofia Coppola's last film On the Rocks which felt weird and out of place the same way Life without Zoe did. And it is again about a woman and her charming father, that she is more of parent to.
Both films just feel like inside jokes between father and daughter.
Life without Zoe is about a girl of absent, albeit, talented parents. She is affluent but growing up alone because her parents have to spend a lot of time abroad for their creative jobs. She has a soft spot for her father. She parents her parents.
I am thinking that this project is a personal bonding experience and a hands-on little film school, a gift from a father to his daughter perhaps? And If this is the case, I find it sweet and bold and remarkable.
Then I am thinking how much I did not like Sofia Coppola's last film On the Rocks which felt weird and out of place the same way Life without Zoe did. And it is again about a woman and her charming father, that she is more of parent to.
Both films just feel like inside jokes between father and daughter.