Sofia Coppola hits the croisette with the female star from the Harry Potter's movies, Emma Watson. Just three years after Somewhere – who won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival –, If you want to know where they live, you just type their names in a computer and up the address pops online.The Bling Ring premiered in may 2013 during the Cannes International Film Festival, opening the competition Un Certain Regard. They leave their house keys under the mat, their wallets in their cars and they tell all their fans when they are going to be out of town. If the film (and the Vanity Fair article that inspired it) are taken as the measure, these celebrities pay very little attention to personal security.

They have so much stuff anyway and the Bling Ring never takes enough for it to be too obvious what has gone missing. One of the most comic ironies is the celebrities' utter obliviousness to the fact that their possessions are being stolen. She leaves us to make up our own minds, too, about the Marie Antoinette-like excesses of Paris Hilton's wardrobe. The characters here behave – at least in outsiders' eyes – so strangely anyway that there is no need for any rhetorical flourishes or lurches toward melodrama. Throughout the film, Coppola shows an understatement worthy of Evelyn Waugh's satirical Hollywood-set novel, The Loved One. She is intrigued by everything about their behaviour from the clothes they wear to their favourite clubs and music and their social-networking habits. She is more the anthropologist looking in from a distance at her materially minded, fame- obsessed protagonists than she is the gossip columnist, barging in on their lives in search of sensationalism.

However, Coppola's style is determinedly anti-tabloid. The characters in this film are very familiar to us from celebrity magazines, reality shows and websites such as TMZ. What makes Coppola so perfect to tell this story is precisely what infuriates many about her film-making style – namely her detachment and emotional coolness. This isn't because of her own celebrity credentials (although they obviously helped – Paris Hilton might not have been so excited about collaborating on the movie otherwise). This is the group which reportedly burgled the homes of various celebrities, Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Lindsay Lohan among them.Ĭoppola is the ideal chronicler of these pampered adolescents' misdeeds. 'Let's go shopping' are the first words we hear in Sofia Coppola's wry and fascinating feature film based on the true story of the Los Angeles teenagers, the 'Bling Ring'.

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