Was Elvis Presley toxic? In her film “Priscilla,” director Sofia Coppola asks some uncomfortable questions about the “King.”
Elvis and the love of his life: A very young girl captured the heart of the biggest rock star of his time in 1959 when he was doing military service in Germany. She later became his first and only wife. Actually enough material for an overwhelming romance, the realization of a teenage fantasy. But with her film “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola, the girl-understanding director, takes a different path. Elvis as a lover and partner – for her it also has the characteristics of a nightmare.
The disillusionment begins with the first facts.