TO WATCH: “A WORLD GONE MAD. THE WAR DIARIES OF ASTRID LINDGREN.” BY WILFRIED HAUKE
"If happiness is to last, it must come from within, not from someone else."
TO WATCH: EDIE BY GIA COPPOLA
“Edie.” That is the title of Gia Coppola’s latest work. In the midst of the usually overcrowded Hollywood Boulevard, the American filmmaker turns intimacy into prevailing emotion. It feels like looking through Gia Coppola’s eyes – a cinematic retelling of a character study. Not only of a place near where Gia grew up, but also of a state of mind.
Inspired by Ed Ruscha’s renowned work “Every Building on the Sunset Strip”, “Edie” highlights the everyday details that are so often overlooked. Already as a child, fascinated by the chaotic poetry of Hollywood Boulevard, Gia Coppola now returns to create her own version. Armed with nothing but a small team and the Google Pixel 10 Pro.
“I have this sort of immediacy with the phone. It creates a different kind of energy and freeness on set.”
Intimacy. The director and visual artist manages to create a keyhole moment in just a few frames. Nothing forbidden, but rather a reality shaped by childlike curiosity. Charged with humor, “Edie” reveals an entirely different side of Hollywood Boulevard.
Gia Coppola proves that less can indeed be more, and how, through a phone, the boundaries between traditional and experimental filmmaking can blur. In doing so, she reminds us that cinema’s greatest power lies not in spectacle, but in perspective.
