Lost in Translation (2003)
Storyline
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Directors
Cast
Giovanni Ribisi, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Faris, Akiko Takeshita, Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe, Kazuko Shibata, Take, Fumihiro Hayashi, Hiroko Kawasaki, Daikon, Catherine Lambert, Daiamondo Yukai, Akiko Monô, Françoise Dubois, Gregory Pekar, Ikuko Takahashi, Osamu Shigematu, Takashi Fujii, Lisle Wilkerson, Nancy Steiner, Kazuo Yamada, Akira Yamaguchi, Diamond Yukai, Jun Maki, Nao Asuka, Tetsuro Nakagawa, Hiroshi Kawashima, Kunichi Nomura, Shigekazu Aida, Kei Takyo, Yumi Ikeda
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Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly
What's astonishing about Sofia Coppola's enthralling new movie is the precision, maturity, and originality with which the confident young writer-director communicates so clearly in a cinematic language all her own.
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Coppola both wrote and directed, and there’s a pleasing shapelessness to her scenes. She accomplishes the difficult feat of showing people being bored out of their skulls in such a way that we are never bored watching them.
90
Watch Murray's eyes in the climactic scene in the hotel lobby: while hardly moving, they express the collapsing of all hopes, the return to a sleepwalking status quo. You won't find a subtler, funnier or more poignant performance this year than this quietly astonishing turn.
90
Their (Murray/Johansson) brief, wondrous encounter is the soul of this subtle, funny, melancholy film.
90
The A.V. Club
Gorgeously shot by Lance Acord, who makes Toyko a gaudy dreamscape that's both seductive and frightening, Lost In Translation washes away memories of "Godfather III," establishing Coppola as a major filmmaker in her own right, and reconfirming Johansson and Murray as actors of startling depth and power.
