Lost in Translation

2003

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

139
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 85% · 234 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 523507 523.5K

actor hotel room adultery japan unsociability upper class

Plot summary

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.

Director

Sofia Coppola Photo
Sofia Coppola

Top cast

Scarlett Johansson Photo
Scarlett Johansson as Charlotte
Catherine Lambert Photo
Catherine Lambert as Jazz Singer
Kazuko Shibata Photo
Kazuko Shibata as Press Agent
Ikuko Takahashi Photo
Ikuko Takahashi as Ikebana Instructor
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
697.12 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 41
1.64 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 100

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Hitchcoc 8 / 10

A Quiet, Personal Film

Being in a profession where there is constant noise, I enjoyed this movie for a very odd reason. The characters are pulling away from a hyped up society, away from a world, much of which is based on needless, trivial noise. Everywhere they go there is more numbing action. Watching the director of the commercial gyrating, trying to act like a real film director, despite the fact that they are doing a 30 second liquor commercial, typifies some of what this movie is about, a world where people are worn into the ground by a type A culture that is as vapid and unnecessary as we can imagine. I thought the Bill Murray character developed tremendously. While this trip to Japan was excruciatingly dull (money isn't everything), I believe that he began to see things he hadn't seen before. I liked that while he was struggling with his marriage, the crises were simple, day to day things that living brings to us. The young woman he meets shows through a whimsical kindness, that he is worth something. She is refreshing to look at an to be with. He, like many middle aged men, has self doubts. Because she has a sense of purity and can talk to him honestly about her world and his, he should go back to his life a little more sustained.
Reviewed by whitefalcon79 8 / 10

Sometimes the simplest stories make the best films

I went through an array of emotions and expressions watching this film; most of them centred around how bizarre I thought it was, yet it was like a good book I simply couldn't put down even if the film itself lived up to its title at times.This is by far the best work Bill Murray has done, and it will be a pleasant surprise for many to see him find a new (to me, anyway) side to his ability as an actor. He captures the role with such precision that you don't realise this is the same guy who, dare I even mention it in the same breath, provided the voice of Garfield last year. You see a few traces of his characteristic smugness every once in a while, but by and large the Bill Murray you see is a lot more serious... and seriously damned good.It's such a simple story... unhappy married man meets unhappy married woman in a place neither of them are familiar with, and suddenly realise that they're all the other has got at least for the time being. In an age where Hollywood is trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to scare and shock us with something new at every turn, Sofia Coppola takes what should be the premise for a typical chick flick and turns it into something that anyone who has ever experienced an emotion of any description can watch and appreciate.A brilliant film in any language.
Read more IMDb reviews

8 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment