Lost in Translation

3.89
    Lost in Translation
    2003

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Bill MurrayBob Harris
    • Scarlett JohanssonCharlotte
    • Giovanni RibisiJohn
    • Anna FarisKelly
    • Akiko TakeshitaMs. Kawasaki
    • Kazuyoshi MinamimagoePress Agent
    • Kazuko ShibataPress Agent
    • TakePress Agent
    • Ryuichiro BabaConcierge
    • Akira YamaguchiBellboy

    Recommendations

    • 100

      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

      Time

      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

      Newsweek

      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.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      As bittersweet a brief encounter as any in American movies since Richard Linklater's equally romantic "Before Sunrise."
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      Don't stall about seeing Sofia Coppola's altogether remarkable Lost in Translation. It's a class-act liftoff for the fall movie season. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson give performances that will be talked about for years.
    • 88

      Chicago Tribune

      Dislocated from their native country and former lives, Bob and Charlotte come to establish a language of their own. Coppola has done the same, proving she boasts one of today's truly distinct filmmaking voices.

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