Lost in Translation
This isn’t a movie, it’s an experience.
A wry, sweetly sad Bill Murray and a luminous Scarlett Johansson wander through the Tokyo streets, seeing in each other a connection that helps them navigate waters they barely understand. There’s so little dialogue, it’s like a modern-day silent movie shot in English – which is perfect in a story about people who don’t speak the language, both literally and figuratively. Director Sofia Coppola keeps the dreamy atmosphere going throughout, illuminating Murray and Johansson’s characters while still keeping some things tantalizingly out of reach.
Highly recommended.
I agree. This is the first movie I’ve seen in a long time that didn’t make me feel like it had just killed half my brain cells. If you asked me I couldn’t even explain the movie very well to someone who hadn’t seen it but I really enjoyed it.