Sofia Coppola Comfirms The Virgin Suicides Heading to the Criterion Collection

While giving a lengthy interview and discussing her latest film, The Beguiled, dierctor Sofia Coppola confirmed that the Criterion Collection is preparing a Blu-ray release of The Virgin Suicides. The boutique label has not yet made an official announcement, but the release is expected to arrive on the market next year.

Currently, in the United States The Virgin Suicides is available only on DVD, courtesy of Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Synopsis: Sofia Coppola makes a stunning directorial debut with this "powerfully seductive" film that has become the most talked about movie of the year.

In the mid-1970s, in ay Michigan community, live the Lisbon sisters, five teenagers whose beauty has bewitched a group of neighborhood boys. Isolated by their overprotective parents (James Woods and Kathleen Turner), they move like fleeting visions against the suburban landscape, luminous and unattainable.

But when school hunk Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett) convinces Lux Lisbon (Kirsten Dunst) and her sisters to go to the prom, the boys' romantic fantasies threaten to come true - until they are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides is "a haunting mystery which captures with pinpoint accuracy both an era and an age."