ROME — Filmmaker Sofia Coppola went back to her roots for her wedding Saturday, marrying rocker Thomas Mars in the remote, southern Italian town where her great-grandfather was born.
Coppola’s famous filmmaker father, Francis Ford Coppola, escorted the 40-year-old Sofia down the aisle to a waiting Mars, lead singer of the French band Phoenix and the father of their two young daughters.
The evening ceremony took place in the garden of the palazzo that the elder Coppola renovated in the historic center of Bernalda, a city near the Gulf of Taranto in Italy’s Basilicata region, said Mayor Leonardo Chiruzzi, who performed the ceremony. “Everything went well,” Chiruzzi told The Associated Press afterward. “It was simple, calm, in the garden.”
The bride wore a sheer, lavender tulle dress, and Mars a gray suit with a flower in the lapel. The Associated Press; photo: AFP/Getty Images
