Directors Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola were married. They got married at the vineyard her father - filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola - owns in northern California. Tom Waits sang "Here Comes the Bride" at the wedding (he and his wife/musical partner Kathleen Brennan live in Bolinas). The marriage didn't last, and this film is a fictional account of that marriage disintegrating. [Note: a great double feature would be this film, with Spike Jonze's Her, which is his film about the aftermath of a crumbled marriage... both films use Scarlett Johansson as their muse.]
This soundtrack is phenomenal. It brought Kevin Shields, notable perfectionist of My Bloody Valentine, into the consciousness of a new legion of listeners. It completely captures the tone of the film.. which has a resigned melancholy in Tokyo theme ... and is cohesive in a way that most soundtracks are not. It includes, tagged at the end, a partial capture of Bill Murray singing Roxy Music's "More Than This" at a karaoke bar.
I literally ran into Sofia Coppola on Haight St. the week of Christmas 1990. I was coming out of a bookstore and she was entering. I can't remember how I knew her at that point - she wasn't yet directing, and had just that week been getting panned hard for her performance in her dad's third installment of The Godfather... she had to replace Winona Ryder last minute when Winona suffered from "exhaustion". Yeah right. Years later, in 2001, when Winona was busted for shoplifting from Saks on Wilshire, a friend of mine let me know that he had it on good authority that she was high on Oxycontin. Anyway, Sofia obviously moved beyond The Godfather, Part III.
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