If you believe the old adage to write what you know, there’s little questioning the logic in Sofia Coppola, who’s over 25 years into one of America’s most esteemed filmmaking careers, finally making the jump to documentaries with a portrait of her fashion-mogul friend. Divisive though they sometimes prove, nobody on Earth comes away from a Coppola picture thinking it lacked for sartorial sense — it’s a camera-eye trained on texture, a mind attuned to the psychological weight of shoes or shorts.
“Marc by Sofia,” per the title, puts us in the company of Marc Jacobs, whose interest as a subject commingles with Coppola’s decades-long friendship. It’s the loudest and most propulsive film she’s ever made, using a sea of clips, photos, and music cues to serve as an encyclopedia of New York’s cultural lifeblood over the last 35 years.
On the occasion of “Marc by Sofia”’s March 20 release,…
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