The Virgin Suicides USED

With this debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s popular first novel, The Virgin Suicides conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and ennui in its story of the suicides of the five Lisbon sisters, stifled by the rules of their overprotective religious parents—as told through the memory of the group of men who were boys at the time and still yearn to understand what happened.

Evoking its 1970s suburban setting through ethereal cinematography by Ed Lachman and an atmospheric score by Air, the film secured a place for its director in the landscape of American independent cinema and has become a coming-of-age touchstone.

Director-Approved Blu-ray Special Edition Features:

New 4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman and approved by Sofia Coppola, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio

New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson

Making of "The Virgin Suicides", a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods

Music video for Air’s “Playground Love”, directed by Sofia Coppola

Trailers

PLUS: An essay by novelist Megan Abbott