It's a movie about disconnection: from your family, from the world around you, even from yourself. It's a movie about being trapped in that high chair and wanting so badly to be able to reach that floor.
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10/02/03
Lost in Translation (2003)
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Reviews Counted:214
Fresh:203
Rotten:11
Average Rating:8.4/10
Consensus: Murray gives one of his best performances in this expertly crafted mood piece.
Theatrical Release:09-01-2004
Synopsis: Sofia Coppola's second feature-length film focuses on two guests at a Tokyo hotel--Bob (Bill Murray), a middle-aged actor in town to film whiskey commercials, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson),... [More]
Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Director: Sofia Coppola
Reviews for Lost in Translation
81 - 100 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
...Coppola's more interested in establishing the mood of this foreign land, instead of allowing us to really get to know the two central characters.
10/01/03
In a manner that is leisurely in pace, ruminative in nature and quiet in tone ... Coppola gives her lonely travellers all the space they need to make this tentative and ultimately magical connection.
10/01/03
A film about catharsis, the kind that exists outside of movies: the slow reawakening, triggered by the compassion and like-mindedness of another, that everyone craves.
10/01/03
Coppola and Johansson are relative newcomers from whom wonderful things are certain to keep coming. What's more amazing: A quarter century into his constantly evolving career, Bill Murray has never stopped showing promise.
10/01/03
Murray, as Bob, gives the performance of his career.
10/01/03
The film crackles with the energy of Bob and Charlotte's connection, and their adventures in the hurry-and-flurry Tokyo nightlife are glittery, dreamlike, meditative and beautiful.
10/01/03
An effective mood piece about cultural dislocation and personal alienation...
10/01/03
Bob and Charlotte's relationship in particular is exquisitely portrayed; a sort of platonic romance, it's a relationship that exists because of the things that aren't said between them just as much as the things that are
09/30/03
the best film of the year...it’s time to see what Bill Murray's really capable of. If he isn’t nominated for Oscars for the film, it’ll be a disgrace.
09/30/03
Bill’s performance is just fantastic – filled with a confident vulnerability that only he is capable of.
09/29/03
An amazing mood piece that captures the characters’ inner turmoil, confusion, restlessness and the strange, surreal surroundings that are the cause for their discord.
09/29/03
Sometimes the experience of seeing a film so powerful in its presentation of human character is worth the arguable sacrifice of narrative tension
09/28/03
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09/28/03
Bill Murray is perfectly cast and his performance is understated, like the entire film. He deserves an Oscar nomination.
09/27/03
A film of dazzling style and gentle triumph.
09/26/03
A wistful little film that gradually insinuates itself upon your consciousness.
09/26/03
[A] rich and funny film.
09/26/03
[Murray] is effortlessly superb.
09/26/03
Lost in Translation offers such a wealth of wonderful themes that one hardly knows where to begin.
09/26/03
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