Eleanor Coppola's 'Honest, Revealing' Posthumous Memoir Is on the Way — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

Eleanor Coppola’s bequest lives connected done a “feminist, honest, revealing memoir.”

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look astatine Two of Me: Notes of Living and Leaving, which follows nan head and screenwriter’s life arsenic an artist.

Throughout nan 215-page posthumous memoir, Eleanor specifications her acquisition connected movie sets while directing documentaries surrounding nan useful of her accomplished movie family, including her girl Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Marie Antoinette (2006).

The Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, who joined Francis Ford Coppola aft gathering him arsenic an adjunct creation head connected nan group of 1964’s Dementia 13, besides documents her affectional travel arsenic she receives a “terrifying” crab test that leaves her pinch nan task of uncovering equilibrium successful her life arsenic an artist, woman and mother. 

According to nan book's charismatic synopsis, “Coppola’s graceful and introspective attack to living, on pinch her heavy emotion of storytelling, nan process of creating and nan beauty of quality will time off readers pinch a profound consciousness of wonderment and lasting appreciation for nan world astir them.”

While documenting nan soul workings of her daughter’s directorial projects, Eleanor — who died astatine property 87 from thymoma past April — captured complete 200 hours of behind-the-scenes footage from nan making of Marie Antoinette. Along pinch dedicating her 2023 movie Priscilla to her mother, Sofia, 54, besides penned nan preamble to her precocious mother’s memoir. 

“I deliberation nan point she cared astir about was being genuine,” nan Academy Award-winning head wrote. “When she was filming maine during nan making of my first film, The Virgin Suicides, I was having a difficult time and was upset, and she kept filming maine erstwhile I didn’t want to beryllium filmed. She felt it was important to spot each nan existent sides of making something.”

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Aside from her liking successful her daughter’s works, nan matriarch is champion known for directing nan Emmy-winning 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, which follows Francis making his 1979 warfare play Apocalypse Now. 

The precocious movie director’s memoir, which features an afterword by her friend Alice Waters, besides “touches connected family, matrimony and affairs, unwellness and Eastern medicine, and fame. It does not awkward from taking a difficult look astatine her life, nevertheless unpleasant.”

Eleanor expressed that 1 of her past wishes was to person published.

Two of Me: Notes of Living and Leaving comes retired connected Nov. 11, 2025 from A24.