Rent Priscilla (2023)

3.0 of 5 from 238 ratings
1h 48min
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Synopsis:
Priscilla presents the unseen story of Elvis and Priscilla Presley's long courtship and turbulent marriage. Their romance is a great American myth that spans decades and oceans, from the army base where they met to his dream-world estate at Graceland.
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Sofia Coppola, Youree Henley, Lorenzo Mieli
Writers:
Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Sofia Coppola
Studio:
Mubi
Genres:
Drama, Romance
Collections:
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BBFC:
Release Date:
08/04/2024
Run Time:
108 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 2.0, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English, English Hard of Hearing, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Sofia Coppola in Conversation with Richard Curtis
  • "The Making of Priscilla": A Film by Liv McNeil
BBFC:
Release Date:
08/04/2024
Run Time:
113 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, German Dolby Digital 2.0, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English, English Hard of Hearing, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Sofia Coppola in Conversation with Richard Curtis
  • "The Making of Priscilla": A Film by Liv McNeil
BBFC:
Release Date:
22/04/2024
Run Time:
113 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Atmos, English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, German Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles:
English, English Hard of Hearing, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
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Reviews (4) of Priscilla

A quite fascinating account... - Priscilla review by TB

Spoiler Alert
26/04/2024

I mean, hands up who became acquainted while still at school, romanced with, married, and had a baby with the biggest pop star on the planet?

As long as you don't expect the spectacle of the Elvis movie.. this is a different animal....

I was engrossed with her character - right from the early stages of the romance, her exhilaration was clearly palpable. But I did feel sorry for her (Elvis isn't the most endearing of people), and although she was evidently in love with him, the frustration of her mixed emotions must have been hard to bear.

Good soundtrack, and extra bonus too - no Elvis songs! :)

2 out of 3 members found this review helpful.

Interesting Biopic - Priscilla review by GI

Spoiler Alert
11/11/2024

This biopic based on Priscilla Presley's autobiography is at times a meandering affair and perhaps deliberately so in trying to represent the boredom and isolation of the central character trapped in a bizarre relationship. Cailee Spaeny is absorbing in the title role as the schoolgirl isolated and lonely on an American airbase in Germany in the late 1950s. At a party she meets the already world famous Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi) who is serving his time in the military. He takes a fancy to her and a strange, borderline perverted, relationship begins although Presley treats her like a doll and refrains from any sexual connection. Eventually Priscilla is allowed by her military parents to join Elvis at Graceland where this bizarre romance develops while she still attends a local school! She is introduced to drugs and sees little slips of temperament as Elvis occasionally exhibits uncontrollable anger and controlling behaviour. It all spirals towards collapse of course and the film focuses on this young girl's further isolation stuck in a mansion while her lover is on the road and apparently having affairs with famous actresses. This is a story that has a coming of age narrative drive but highlights the immaturity of a naive child obsessed with a handsome and famous man. But one mustn't forget that this is Priscilla's version of events and she also produced the film so some scepticism is required. Elordi as Elvis is downplayed to enable the narrative to be rightly directed at Priscilla and there are no Elvis songs on the soundtrack as these were denied for use in the film. Overall, an interesting story with an excellent central performance from Spaeny and it works as a story of coercion, control and misogyny but it leaves more questions than it answers.

0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.

A pointless typical female martyr film which manages to make Elvis & the 60s boring - Priscilla review by PV

Spoiler Alert
17/04/2024

I have to confess, I dislike Sofia Coppola movies and find deeply annoying the constant poor me feminist pity party theme and the incessant manblaming for anything bad that happens to women. Sofia, let us remember, is the daughter of famous multi-millionaire film director Francis. Hardly a Dickensian background, MASSIVELY privileged compared to most men or women. Much better film directors out there who never got the breaks.

but to the film: is it engaging, interesting, entertaining? No. It makes me rate the recent ELVIS film much higher actually. The 2005 TV miniseries is great too.

This is awful and tedious. Why? Well because Priscilla Presley is not interesting. She just happened to be the wife of an iconic talented artist, Elvis. She had not discernible talent whatsoever except for looking pretty, if that is a talent at all.

The usual predictable manblaming happens - Elvis is cruel, violent, on drugs, selfish, all the tickbox bad nastywasty man stuff. BUT would we have heard of non-entity Priscilla if he had not chosen her? Elvis had his pick of women and as he said, infidelity is hardly abnormal esp for pop stars.

And there is NO MUSIC. None. A deliberate choice by writer/director to take the focus off Elvis - BUT ELVIS IS THE FOCUS. Priscilla matters not. There is NO mention that her real father died in a plane crash when she was a baby so her Air Force Canadian-born father shown here is her STEP-father.

The best bits are the Memphis Mafia ones -I wanted to hop on their bus and watch that film, not stay with tedious Priscilla and Sofia Coppola's attempt to make her into a metoo martyr.

Watch the Baz Luhrmann Elvis film, not this Priscilla piffle, Or watch a documentary on Elvis, with music, and maybe the tragic family history - Lia-Marie dies aged 54 from heart attack brought on by weight loss bariatric surgery she had undergone. She was on opioids too. Her son, Elvis's grandson, killed himself at the age of 27.

2 stars. Just. A pointless forgettable film, but period settings are nice and the actors manage.

0 out of 2 members found this review helpful.

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