Somewhere (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

[lsanderson]

Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning in a scene from “Somewhere.”
The Pampered Life, Viewed From the Inside
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: December 21, 2010

The opening shot of “Somewhere,” Sofia Coppola’s exquisite, melancholy and formally audacious fourth feature, prepares you for what is to follow in a characteristically oblique and subtle manner. A black Ferrari circulates on an otherwise empty desert speedway, driving in and out of the stationary camera’s range as the noise of its engine oscillates between a distant whine and a full-throated roar. More