Though she’s a type – a virgin, the “good girl” – she doesn’t come off that way. The settings of Palo Alto (which oddly contains nothing to contextualize it as the wealthy tech capital of its title) are house parties, bedrooms and soccer fields.Įmma Roberts stars as April, a gawky but pretty young girl.
The film follows four high-schoolers largely outside of school walls. Coppola doesn’t force anything on her characters, instead capturing the unthinking momentariness of youth. Palo Alto is rife with the stylistic clichés established by Gia’s aunt and directors like Gus Van Sant.īut for a first film, Palo Alto shows promise in its character-first storytelling and its young filmmaker’s evident ease with actors. In Palo Alto, Gia very much takes after the soft aesthetic of Sofia (The Bling Ring, Somewhere) in presenting a cluster of directionless California teenagers backed by a mellow, synthesizer-heavy score. Palo Alto is her debut, an adaptation of James Franco’s book of short stories about disaffected California youth.įrom The Outsiders to The Virgin Suicides, teenage wastelands have been a Coppola specialty, whereas Schwartzman presented a more idiosyncratic portrait of teen angst in the great Rushmore. Gia Coppola, 27, the granddaughter of Francis and niece of Sofia, is the latest Coppola to enter the family business.
The Coppola family has given us Francis Ford Coppola, Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire and some very good wine.
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