![]() In 2021, Heaven by Marc Jacobs released a wildly popular collection dedicated to the Virgin Suicides, including a mesh top emblazoned with Dunst as Lux sullenly picking at a toffee apple. Three decades later, the story’s popularity is showing no signs of waning – if anything, it’s on the up. Today, both the film and the book are regarded as classics, with Coppola having pulled off the near-impossible feat of making a good page-to-screen adaptation. Six years after its publication, it was made into an ethereal film, famously directed by Sofia Coppola (her debut, in fact), starring Kirsten Dunst as Lux, the 14-year-old Lisbon sister, and soundtracked by Air. It received a limited release in April 2000 as Paramount Classics was afraid it would encourage ‘copycat’ teen suicides, before going on to achieve slightly more success after a wider release in May. It’s narrated by a ch orus of the neighbourhood’s boys – now men – who remain fascinated by the tragedy, decades on, and fruitlessly attempt to figure out what compelled them to end their lives. ![]() As the title suggests, the girls grow increasingly isolated by the actions of their draconian mother, and eventually all commit suicide. ![]() The story, now revered as a modern classic, follows the five Lisbon sisters living in a leafy Michigan suburb during the 1970s. Jeffrey Eugenides’ debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published 30 years ago this week, on 1 April 1993. ![]()
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