Somewhere

Movie star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is living in room 59 at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles, his life a stream of girls, booze, pills and parties, while he also drifts in and out of the press work he has to do to promote his new film. When his young daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) from a failed marriage arrives unannounced outside his room he finds he enjoys spending time with her. Her mother ha gone away for a while, and Johnny spends every moment with Cleo, even taking her to Milan with him to promote the film’s Italian re- lease to receive a film award. Not long after they return to the US she heads off to a summer camp, and he returns to his lonely room at the Chateau Marmont, confused as to what his life is actually about. SOMEWHERE is an entrancing return to form for Sofia Coppola, an absorbing, amusing and thoughtful delve into the empty life of a movie star who finds himself increasingly lost and confused within his rather vapid lifestyle. It has the same poetically mournful tone as Coppola’s acclaimed “Lost In Translation”, punctuated with laugh-out loud moments as well as a lingering sense of com- passion. Mark Adams