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A charismatic man, a woman in love, an age gap and an influence differential: Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla biopic is sympathetic and cautionary in regards to the appeals of losing oneself within the arms of a person, writes Christina Newland Sofia Coppola has long excelled in externalising a specific type of girlhood angst in a way that detractors of her work have called superficial. This very pretty type of suffocation may be a part of the purpose – we regularly relish within the very things which will trap us in the long run – and it is vitally much the thesis of her latest film, Priscilla. An elliptical, poetic exploration borrowing from the memoirs...