Official Trailer
Our Review
- Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen
- January 1st 2024
- Sofia Coppola
Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi play Priscilla and Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s biographical drama.
Many people will know Elvis Presley’s story – which was showcased in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 movie Elvis – and now Sofia Coppola has retold it from his wife Priscilla’s perspective.
The biographical drama depicts Elvis (Jacob Elordi) and Priscilla (Cailee Spaeny) first meeting in Germany when she was 14 and he was 24 and then charts their tumultuous relationship and marriage.
Priscilla, based on Presley’s memoir Elvis and Me, doesn’t paint the most flattering picture of the music legend.
While fans around the world were jealous of Priscilla being Elvis’ wife, this film suggests that it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
Elvis is shown to be emotionally – and occasionally physically abusive – to his wife. He controlled everything from her appearance to when they saw each other (so she was frequently isolated at Graceland), gave her pills and guns, and forbid her from getting...