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i-D: Sofia Coppola's next movie is an 80s AIDS drama

Few filmmakers pin down the coming-of-age experience quite like Sofia Coppola. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, she understands its melancholy and madness. It makes sense then, that the next project she’s opted to get involved with sees her return to familiar ground. Fairyland, which Sofia Coppola is producing, is an adaptation of the 2013 memoir of the same name. It tells the story of Alysia Abbott, a woman recalling her youth spent in San Francisco with her father, a bisexual man, in the 70s and 80s. Of course, the story intersects with the AIDS crisis, and how it affected her family.

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