Monday, September 15, 2003
Lost in Translation
Just got back from watching Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola's new directorial venture. A comedy, it tells the heartwarming tale of two Americans, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, who play lonely strangers in Tokyo whose paths cross and whose relationship undergoes strange twists. I think Roger Ebert's review does the movie the greatest justice.
She's in her early 20s, Bob's in his 50s. This is the classic set-up for a May-November romance, since in the mathematics of celebrity intergenerational dating you can take five years off the man's age for every million dollars of income. But "Lost in Translation" is too smart and thoughtful to be the kind of movie where they go to bed and we're supposed to accept that as the answer. Sofia Coppola, who wrote and directed, doesn't let them off the hook that easily.
With fantastic acting by Murray and Johansson and great directing from Coppola, it is definitely one of the best movies I have watched all year.
She's in her early 20s, Bob's in his 50s. This is the classic set-up for a May-November romance, since in the mathematics of celebrity intergenerational dating you can take five years off the man's age for every million dollars of income. But "Lost in Translation" is too smart and thoughtful to be the kind of movie where they go to bed and we're supposed to accept that as the answer. Sofia Coppola, who wrote and directed, doesn't let them off the hook that easily.
With fantastic acting by Murray and Johansson and great directing from Coppola, it is definitely one of the best movies I have watched all year.
