Sofia Coppola鈥檚 poetic drama Somewhere won the Golden Lion for best film at the 2010 Venice Film Festival by a unanimous decision.

Director Quentin Tarantino, who headed up the jury, told the San Francisco Chronicle, 鈥淭his was a film that enchanted us from our first screening. Yet from that first enchanting screening, it grew and grew and grew in both our hearts, in our analysis, in our minds, and in our affections.鈥�

Coppola reunites with the team behind her Academy Award-winning and critically acclaimed hit, Lost in Translation, to bring us this touching and powerful portrait of family, hope and the cult of celebrity. Written and directed by Coppola, Somewhere is an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles.

Believed to be partly inspired by her own childhood experiences as the daughter of acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, the story is one all too familiar among Hollywood celebrities. Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff, Public Enemies) is a bad-boy A-list actor stumbling through a life of excess at the infamous Chateau Marmont Hotel. When his estranged 11-year-old daughter, Cleo (brilliantly played by Elle Fanning, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), pays him an unexpected visit, Johnny is forced to re-examine his life and its true meaning.

Tickets are $11 each, available at Comox Valley Art Gallery Gift Shop, 580 Duncan Ave., Courtenay, and Videos 鈥橬 More, 264 Anderton Rd., Comox.

Somewhere will be shown on Sunday, Jan. 30 at 5 p.m. at the Rialto Theatre, 2665 Cliffe Ave., Courtenay (at Driftwood Mall).

For more information, call 250-338-6211 or visit www.comoxvalleyartgallery.com for a complete listing of films.

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