Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla To Close The Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023

The Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival (October 27 to November 5) is excited to announce that this year’s Closing Night film will be Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla. Written and directed by Coppola, Priscilla is based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me written by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon.

The film stars Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi and Dagmara Dominczyk.

The film will receive its South Asia Premiere on Friday November 3, at the PVR Maison in BKC, following a successful World Premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, where the film received a seven minute standing ovation.

The film revolves around a teenage Priscilla Beaulieu, who meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.

Director of Photography on the film is Philippe Le Sourd, Costume Designer Stacey Battat, Editor Sarah Flack and Production Designer Tamara Deverell. The film was produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company, Sofia Coppola for American Zoetrope, and Youree Henley. The film was financed by Fremantle Group.