Sofia Coppola's "Priscilla" begins its retelling of Priscilla Presley's life with a girly montage of pink toenails on a plush soft pink carpet, a lash strip ready to be plastered on a dark cat eye and hairspray to hold her luminous, dyed locks. You can't forget the poodle skirt either. All the things that make a '50s girl, a girl. It's a look that will be drastically made over by her future lover through the course of the film.
Based on Presley's memoir, "Elvis and Me," Coppola's take on the life of the girl once known as Priscilla Beaulieu is biting in establishing her teen girlhood and how her life turns upside down when she meets Elvis Presley in war-stricken Germany in 1959. The film paints the start of their union of a very lonely girl meeting a very lonely, older celebrity crush. They fall in love and the rest is history. We've seen it, we've read about it but we've never really experienced it through Priscilla's eyes.
