Gia Coppola’s debut, ‘Palo Alto,’ an engaging and poetic teenage drama based on James Franco’s stories, ushers in another generation of filmmaking from the famous family.
Gia Coppola sounds surprisingly tentative for someone who has made such a self-assured first feature. “I was really nervous about working with actors because my only real experience was using my friends in short films,” she says of Palo Alto, her totally engaging, emotionally bold, and often poetic drama based...
