That Teenage Feeling: Why 'The Virgin Suicides' Is My Quarantine Soundtrack

Late in Sofia Coppola's mesmeric 1999 film a group of teenage boys swallow their nerves and call up the Lisbon sisters — classmates they're enamored with, who have been put under house arrest by their strict parents. When the girls pick up the phone, the young men hold the receiver up to a record player speaker, dropping the needle on Todd Rundgren's "." They let the wrenching song play through the chorus, then hang up. Seconds later the girls call them back, this time responding with a song of their own: Gilbert O'Sullivan's "." The two groups go back and forth, communicating solely through the poignant music they play for each other —"" by the Bee Gees, Carole King's "" — and practically holding their breath in anticipation as they wait to hear from