Lost in Translation
Academy Award × 1
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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.
What critics thought
One of the most praised American films of the 2000s, celebrated for Coppola's atmospheric, understated direction and for Murray's ability to fuse his comic persona with genuine emotional weight. Critics found the film's mood-piece qualities — its quietness, its emotional longing, its willingness to leave things unspoken — to be exactly the point, though a handful noted that its wispy plot and Antonioniesque restraint are as much limitation as virtue.
“his two halves have never come together as they do here, in a way that connects that hilarious detachment with the deep and abiding sense of isolation that must have spawned it”
David Edelstein·Slate
“tart and sweet, unmistakably funny and exceptionally well observed—[which] marks ... Coppola as a mature talent with a distinctive sensibility and the means to express it”
Kenneth Turan·Los Angeles Times
“While Lost in Translation is deeply sad and has a strongly Antonioniesque flavour, it's also a wispy romantic comedy with little plot and some well-observed comic moments.”
Philip French·The Observer
“Lost in Translation is as bittersweet a brief encounter as any in American movies since Richard Linklater's equally romantic Before Sunrise. But Lost in Translation is the more poignant reverie. Coppola evokes the emotional intensity of a one-night stand far from home—but what she really gets is the magic of movies”
J. Hoberman·Village Voice
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorSofia Coppola
StarringBill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Akiko Takeshita
ComposerKevin Shields
Lost in Translation
Academy Award × 1
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.
What critics thought
One of the most praised American films of the 2000s, celebrated for Coppola's atmospheric, understated direction and for Murray's ability to fuse his comic persona with genuine emotional weight. Critics found the film's mood-piece qualities — its quietness, its emotional longing, its willingness to leave things unspoken — to be exactly the point, though a handful noted that its wispy plot and Antonioniesque restraint are as much limitation as virtue.
“his two halves have never come together as they do here, in a way that connects that hilarious detachment with the deep and abiding sense of isolation that must have spawned it”
David Edelstein·Slate
“tart and sweet, unmistakably funny and exceptionally well observed—[which] marks ... Coppola as a mature talent with a distinctive sensibility and the means to express it”
Kenneth Turan·Los Angeles Times
“While Lost in Translation is deeply sad and has a strongly Antonioniesque flavour, it's also a wispy romantic comedy with little plot and some well-observed comic moments.”
Philip French·The Observer
“Lost in Translation is as bittersweet a brief encounter as any in American movies since Richard Linklater's equally romantic Before Sunrise. But Lost in Translation is the more poignant reverie. Coppola evokes the emotional intensity of a one-night stand far from home—but what she really gets is the magic of movies”
J. Hoberman·Village Voice
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorSofia Coppola
StarringBill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Akiko Takeshita
ComposerKevin Shields
Rent/Purchase