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Sofia Coppola’s latest movie is a Hollywood insider’s look at the life of an A-list actor — five star hotels, luxury cars, adoration and sexual advances, together with loneliness, unending media attention and even boredom. “Somewhere” is a comedic look into the crisis of man, in this case, Johnny Marco, portrayed by Stephen Dorff  examining his seemingly enviable life and where it may be heading.

Reported by Reuters,the 39 year old Copolla attended her film’s world premiere at the very rainy Venice film festival, on Friday. “We spent a lot of time going out, living in hotels when we were on location with my dad, so I always find when you are living in a hotel it’s like a world in itself,” she explained after the film was warmly applauded at the press screening.
Let’s not forget that her “Lost in Translation,” Oscar winner for best screenplay, also took place in a hotel. “I like hotels for settings, they are an impermanent place. A lot of the characters I am interested in are in a moment of transition and it seems fitting that they would be in an impermanent setting.” Coppola added that she wanted “to tell the story from a guy’s point of view, something about the emotional life of men who are different for me.”

“I think the movie’s about him becoming a man,” Stephen Dorff said of his character. In the movie, Marco drifts from one party and partner to another. Numbed with pills and alcohol, he hires scantily-clad pole dancers to perform in his room and looks on bemused as journalists ask inane questions at press conferences.  “Somewhere” has its U.S. theatrical release in late December.