The Bling Ring

— I was the only person in the theater for the 2:30 p.m. showing of “The Bling Ring”. With Sophia Coppola directing and Harris Savides as cinematographer, this should have been exceptional, but it fell oddly flat. Beautiful but lacking much emotion. It’s hard to like or dislike these vaguely high-school aged California kids and their parents come off as new age fools. You may feel a deep sense of regret that this is a society of which we are a part, that somehow we share some responsibility for this shallowness and selfishness, and this obsession with fame and style. I imagine the “Vanity Fair” article on which the film is based may have been more palatable—assuming it was shorter than the film—but the issues are interesting in either medium. Sadly, this is less successful than most of Sophia Coppola’s other films.

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[2013. 90 min. Directed by Sofia Coppola. Starring Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, and Claire Julien.]
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