The Virgin Suicides, based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, is a poetic and melancholic film by Sofia Coppola about the lives and tragic deaths of the five Lisbon sisters in a 1970s American suburb. The action takes place in the sheltered but restrictive suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where the girls grow up under the strict rules of their religious parents and are watched curiously by the neighborhood and a group of adolescent boys.

The film shows the increasing isolation of the girls, who are forced into a narrow framework by strict parental control and social expectations. This confinement, combined with personal despair, leads to repeated suicide attempts and finally to a joint suicide that shatters the idyllic suburban life. The story is told from the perspective of the boys, for whom the secret of the girls remains hidden despite all their fascination and love.

Sofia Coppola succeeds in capturing the subtle tension between longing, desire and repression in the lives of the adolescents with delicate images, an atmospheric soundtrack and a quiet, haunting narrative style.