Valley girls go wild in Sofia Coppola's breezy 'Bling Ring'

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• RESERVOIR PUPPIES: The cast of 'The Bling Ring'

You can't shame an attention whore. No matter how often smart filmmakers and other artists try to lampoon the likes of Donald Trump or Paris Hilton, the mockery ultimately defeats itself, as even the harshest public ridicule only serves to increase their celebrity.

Writer/director Sofia Coppola runs up against this problem with her latest release,The Bling Ring. This sharp social comedy depicts a real clique of materialistic California teenagers whose obsession with the likes of Paris Hilton inspires them to break the law, and eventually become media figures in their own right. As a satire based on a real case, The Bling Ring tends to defeat itself, but it's depiction of Valley Girls gone bad proves highly entertaining, even for viewers who can't tell Manolo Blahniks from Louboutins (or know that they're shoes).