“I always like themes about finding one’s identity and teenage girls growing into adulthood,” said Sofia Coppola in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. The director’s new film, adapted from Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, expands on Coppola’s previous explorations of interiority and the yearning for connection. Cailee Spaeny plays the protagonist, who is 14 when she meets the already famous Elvis (Jacob Elordi), 10 years her senior. It’s 1959 and he’s stationed in West Germany. Enchanted by his allure, Priscilla finishes high school in America while residing at Graceland. It does not take long for her storybook life there to take a turn. Elvis cheats and uses drugs, controls what Priscilla wears, isolates her, and denies her any sexual intimacy. With her usual period-perfect aesthetics, Coppola tells this intimate story through Priscilla’s eyes and Priscilla’s eyes only, creating a disquieting portrait of love and fame. —Jeanne Malle

Priscilla will be shown in select theaters until its national release on November 3