Somewhere

With its insider depiction of Hollywood life Somewhere will do little to change the minds of those critics who have seen director Sofia Coppola as a movie brat trading on her gilded upbringing. Johnny Marco (Dorff) is a troubled film star living at the Chateau Marmont in LA. His life is a round of parties, casual sexual encounters with beautiful women, and press calls at which he gets asked banal, yet existentially disturbing questions like: "Who is Johnny Marco?".

Unexpectedly, his teenage daughter (ably played by Fanning) comes to stay and her presence seems to invigorate him. After her departure his disaffection returns and turns to depression. With its long, slow takes and cool, detached visuals Somewhere is never less than watchable. It paints a seductively melancholic picture of Hollywood stardom, but after the clunkily symbolic final scene, there remains a sense that it is little more than an exercise in aspirational angst. Oh, to be young, famous and depressed. [Keir Roper-Caldbeck]