Third collaboration by Coppola and Murray

"On the Rocks" ... is good despite the lack of some elements

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Sophia Coppola's new movie, On The Rocks, is almost lost in the crowd of original Netflix productions, flowing one after the other, especially during this period, which is the award season where famous movie magazines and websites publish lists of the best films of the year, and their experts' guesses about who will win the most prestigious film award in the world .

Hollywood ignored many human aspects in its films, such as the friendship between father and daughter.

Yes, we watched a lot of movies about a mother-daughter friendship, or a daughter’s sympathy for a mother against a father.

But we haven't seen much of the parent-daughter relationship.

Sophia Coppola - the daughter of famous American filmmaker Frances Ford Coppola, author of the "Godfather" and "Resurrection Now" trilogy - explores this aspect of the family relationship in "On the Rocks," which she has written and directed, as is the case with all of her films since her inception at the beginning of this century.

If you went back to the movie "Missing in Translation" in 2003, you would find the story of two people who did not know that they were lost until they found each other in the Park Hyatt Tokyo.

"On the Rocks", Coppola's seventh film, reflects her third collaboration with veteran Bill Murray, after the aforementioned Tokyo movie, and a short Netflix movie entitled A Very Murray Christmas.

Murray himself stated that his performance in "Missing in Translation" was closest to his heart.

So it is only natural to hope that we will see a better performance here.

When we see Murray in the movie, he is riding in the back seat of Mercedes, and he looks cross-legged despite his head blazing old.

Murray plays Felix, who was once a gigantic pre-retirement New York art studio.

Today Felix lives in wealth and moves between Paris and New York, lunching and dining in the most luxurious restaurants, and flirting with the women around him, and he never misses one even if she is the waitress of the restaurant and even if she is at the age of his granddaughter.

Felix is ​​not just a man who opposes women, but Coppola presents him as the last remaining of the 20th century men, among those who do not know modesty, and do not hesitate to flirt with a pregnant woman or remind any girl about the conditions of women in the middle of the 20th century, and sometimes he gives a historical lecture about the state of Women in the time before Christ.

He is a chauvinist aristocrat who believes that it is his natural right as a man, but rather his duty to shave at women, flirt with them, and establish relationships even if this is the last work in his life.

And that is exactly why his family disintegrated.

In the movie, we see him in New York visiting his daughter Laura (Rashida Jones - daughter of famous music producer Quincy Jones), who suffers from a family "drama"!

Laura thinks her husband Dean (Marlon Wins) is having an affair with another woman.

Laura lives with her husband in a beautiful apartment and they have two daughters.

Her husband owns a company that we don't know its field of work for, but which company has a customer satisfaction department.

The company is in its beginnings and lives successive stories, and Laura understands as well as the public that the success of the company requires her husband to stay away from her for a lot of time.

Laura herself is a book author who is anxious not to be able to start her next book due to daily busyness.

What is the evidence for a relationship between religion and another woman?

When he comes home from a business trip and seems distracted from the steroids he is taking to combat work pressure, he kisses his wife and when she talks to him he seems surprised that she is just another person.

In his bag, Laura found feminine toiletries, and when I asked Dean about it, he innocently said that it was back to Fiona (Jessica Henwick) his assistant who accompanied him everywhere.

When her handbag was full, she asked him to put those personal items in his bag.

The answer is not convincing. Laura tried to search her husband's phone and found that he had deleted all of his messages to Fiona.

Laura decides to seek help from her father, who did not hesitate to give these funny lectures about the history of the relationship between a man and a woman to his daughter, and when Laura tells him about the incident in the bedside, he tells her: We must investigate the matter, let us chase him secretly.

This is what happens, and here the film turns into a beautiful friendship, even if she is tense, between Laura and her father Felix, or a movie accompanying a father to his daughter interspersed with a romantic comedy.

If this movie came 20 years ago, it would have starred Sandra Bullock, Ellen Arken, and Dermot Mulroney.

In the end we have a good movie, but it misses some of the elements that made magic for some of Coppola's previous films.

For example, "Missing in translation" was about a soul communicating with another spirit without romance.

"On the Rocks" is completely romantic, in which we see a parent and daughter discover themselves through the concepts of love and trust, although it reflects the talent of its maker, but it makes you regret: if it was better than that!

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A completely romantic movie .. Although it reflects the talent of its maker, it makes you saddened: if it was better than that!

Despite his head that caught fire, Coppola presented "Felix" as if he was the last remaining man of the 20th century.

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