Perhaps it makes sense that a woman whose earliest memory was on the set of Apocalypse Now would grow up to direct a dark fable about five adolescent girls who unapologetically and unceremoniously kill themselves, but for Sofia Coppola, the path to the director’s chair was an uncertain one.Literally christened into a filmmaking career, the third child and only daughter of Francis Ford and Eleanor Coppola was born in Manhattan in the spring of 1971, during the production of her father’s masterpiece, The Godfather. When it came time to shoot the baptism scene near the end of the film, the elder Coppola didn’t have to look very far for an infant, and the epic became the impromptu actress’ first, uncredited role. He found another bit part for the tiny Sofia in The Godfather Part II before her memorable experience on the tumultuous set of Apocalypse, as recorded in Eleanor’s 1991 documentary of the making of the film, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.