Lost in Translation (2003)
Country: US/JAP
Technical: col 102m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Synopsis:
A jaded film star in Tokyo to do whisky ads meets the neglected wife of a magazine photographer, herself in the process of questioning her existence.
Review:
A film of moods and subtleties, not least in what might at first seem the fashionable divergence in ages between its romantic leads: women have these crises of anxiety at an altogether different time of life to men. The performances, largely improvised, are a delight: one is happy in the company of these people; like ships in a storm to each other, so they are to us. (Though their isolation among incomprehensible Japanese, vapid expats and spouses simply on a different plane of awareness does make their coming together a mite overdetermined, at least Murray's wife is not deaf to the fact something is going on in his life.) Some complained the film led nowhere and took its time getting there; but those open to the experience will appreciate that enshrined here is one of those episodes in life that we are lucky to have and stay with us for ever, especially when they lead nowhere.
Country: US/JAP
Technical: col 102m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Synopsis:
A jaded film star in Tokyo to do whisky ads meets the neglected wife of a magazine photographer, herself in the process of questioning her existence.
Review:
A film of moods and subtleties, not least in what might at first seem the fashionable divergence in ages between its romantic leads: women have these crises of anxiety at an altogether different time of life to men. The performances, largely improvised, are a delight: one is happy in the company of these people; like ships in a storm to each other, so they are to us. (Though their isolation among incomprehensible Japanese, vapid expats and spouses simply on a different plane of awareness does make their coming together a mite overdetermined, at least Murray's wife is not deaf to the fact something is going on in his life.) Some complained the film led nowhere and took its time getting there; but those open to the experience will appreciate that enshrined here is one of those episodes in life that we are lucky to have and stay with us for ever, especially when they lead nowhere.
Country: US/JAP
Technical: col 102m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Synopsis:
A jaded film star in Tokyo to do whisky ads meets the neglected wife of a magazine photographer, herself in the process of questioning her existence.
Review:
A film of moods and subtleties, not least in what might at first seem the fashionable divergence in ages between its romantic leads: women have these crises of anxiety at an altogether different time of life to men. The performances, largely improvised, are a delight: one is happy in the company of these people; like ships in a storm to each other, so they are to us. (Though their isolation among incomprehensible Japanese, vapid expats and spouses simply on a different plane of awareness does make their coming together a mite overdetermined, at least Murray's wife is not deaf to the fact something is going on in his life.) Some complained the film led nowhere and took its time getting there; but those open to the experience will appreciate that enshrined here is one of those episodes in life that we are lucky to have and stay with us for ever, especially when they lead nowhere.