Cast your mind back not so long ago to the summer of 2022. Baz Luhrmann was making a dazzling return to the big screen with his eye-popping Elvis biopic, a riot of colour and glitz with a budget of around $85m (£67m).
Eighteen months later, Sofia Coppola is telling a similar story from a different perspective in her film Priscilla. It’s a quieter but no less stylish interpretation of life under the lens from the viewpoint of the wife of the king of rock’n’roll.
Coppola’s starting point was Priscilla Presley’s 1985 bestselling memoir Elvis and Me, which gave an intimate insight into the pair’s turbulent relationship and the pressures of stardom.
