![]() ![]() It's one of the sweetest moments in a story that is largely somber, at times problematic. Seconds later the girls call them back, this time responding with a song of their own: Gilbert O'Sullivan's " Alone Again (Naturally)." The two groups go back and forth, communicating solely through the poignant music they play for each other -" Run to Me" by the Bee Gees, Carole King's " So Far Away" - and practically holding their breath in anticipation as they wait to hear from the other side. When the girls pick up the phone, the young men hold the receiver up to a record player speaker, dropping the needle on Todd Rundgren's " Hello It's Me." They let the wrenching song play through the chorus, then hang up. ![]() Late in Sofia Coppola's mesmeric 1999 film The Virgin Suicides, a group of teenage boys swallow their nerves and call up the Lisbon sisters - classmates they're enamored with, who have been put under house arrest by their strict parents. Cook and Chelse Swain as the enigmatic Lisbon sisters in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. ![]()
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