Coppola compiled 80 hours of footage of his mother to complete - Marie Antoinette - a behind-the-scenes documentary

 My mother had two wishes before she died: to publish the book and to complete the film.Sofia Coppola took this quote to heart.She and editor Aaron Matthews compiled more than 80 hours of footage left by Eleanor Coppola and completed "Making Marie Antoinette". The film was screened at the 70th London Film Festival.

On the afternoon of October 8, Sophia had a conversation with Edith Bowman at the Royal Festival Hall in London.She recalled how her mother came to the set, and also talked about how she felt watching this material after she became a director and became a mother.The documentary was completed about two and a half years after Eleanor's death and was compiled with input from her mother's close friends.

2006's Marie Antoinette was a large-scale, high-budget shoot, starring Kirsten Dunst as the 18th-century French queen, and the crew also entered the Palace of Versailles for filming.Sofia was 34 years old at the time, and her mother brought a camera to watch her work. She soon entered the state of a documentary director and took pictures of the clothes, flowers, corsets and on-set activities.

For her daughter, her mother's arrival calmed down the tense set.Sofia said it was a stressful and even daunting project, but Eleanor was a grounding presence and everyone was happy to see her.

She didn't know at first how much material her mother had saved.Later, when they returned to Northern California, they dug out the footage and discovered that the set was so richly recorded.The picture brought Sophia back to the filming of that year, and her mother was also very excited and wanted to make it into a complete movie.The two began discussing how they could cut it, but Eleanor died before the project was completed.

“Then I must finish it.”Sofia understands her mother's wishes in this way.

After she actually started editing, she found that the work was more difficult than expected, and it was like getting a gift: she could see the set through her mother's eyes again, and see the way a mother observed her daughter's work.Now that her own daughter is approaching adulthood, she can understand these images from the perspective of a mother, and the production process has taken on another meaning.

Talking about how "Marie Marie" was filmed, she went back to 2003's "Lost in Translation".After the success of Tokyo Story starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, she got more creative space, and people began to ask her what she wanted to film next.She admitted that without the success of her previous film, it would have been difficult to get a big project like Marie Antoinette directly.

Murray was also the key to getting Lost in Translation off the ground.Sofia spent a year looking for an opportunity to contact him; she says she would not have made the film without his involvement.The conversation played clips from the film, and she talked specifically about Murray's improvisation.

Bowman also brought the topic back to 1999 - The Virgin Suicides.Sofia created it because she wanted to write about real girl relationships.When she was growing up, she rarely saw characters in movies that she could identify with and respect young people, and she was dissatisfied with some cheap youth films with rough photography.

《Marie Marie 》- received mixed reviews when it was first released, with Dunst's performance and different accent also being questioned.Over the years, the film gradually found its own audience.Sofia recalled working with Dunst many times and liked her unique temperament, depth in her eyes, and her humor and mischievous side.

As for the next step, Sophia said she will return to feature film creation.The documentary film about Marc Jacobs was unveiled at last year's Venice Film Festival. Together with this mother's video project, she has produced two documentary features in a row; now, she wants to re-write, reimagine the world of characters, and continue to try to create feature films.The 70th London Film Festival will last until October 18.