Sofia Coppola’s film about the relationship between teenage Priscilla Presley and Elvis, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is outstanding
But Elvis is honorably discharged from the Army in 1960 and returns to the States, while Priscilla is stuck in West Germany for another year and a half. They talk and write occasionally, with Priscilla learning of Elvis’s rumored flings with Nancy Sinatra and the like through the gossip rags. She is a bit jealous, yes, but mostly yearns for when they’ll be reunited.
and in her memoir, claiming that they waited to have sex until their wedding night, when she was weeks shy of 22. In, you get the sense that Elvis suffers from Peter Pan Syndrome, and that he’s fetishized her chasteness to an alarming degree. By the spring of 1963, Priscilla has moved into Graceland — on the condition that Elvis’s father and grandmother chaperone her, and that she finishes high school. And it doesn’t take long for things to go full Pygmalion, as Elvis chooses what outfits she can wear , forces her to dye her hair black and apply eye makeup, and refuses to let her have friends over or work a part-time job at a boutique, even though he disappears for months at a time filming movies .
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