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Lost in Translation

2003

Sofia Coppola

Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris ...

7.1

102,103

Drama. Comedy Bob Harris (Murray) and Charlotte (Johansson) are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband (Ribisi). Unable to sleep, Bob and Charlotte cross paths one night in the luxury hotel bar. This chance meeting soon becomes a surprising friendship. Charlotte and Bob venture through Tokyo, having often hilarious ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"[Murray] supplies the kind of performance that seems so fully realized and effortless that it can easily be mistaken for not acting at all"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Bill Murray's acting in Sofia Coppola's 'Lost in Translation' is surely one of the most exquisitely controlled performances in recent movies (...) [The] people and everything they do are believable (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Mark Caro 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."	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	"This teasing seductive drama displays perceptiveness and maturity, coaxing an evocative sense of the sweet agony of unarticulated sentiments."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[Coppola] conjures a terrifically funny, heartbreakingly sad and swooningly romantic movie from almost nowhere and just makes it look very easy - as well as very modern and very sexy (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson give performances that will be talked about for years (...) 'Lost in Translation' is found gold (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Radio Times	"This talented young director has produced a sad, funny, magical and almost irresistibly moving experience (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Rob Fraser Empire	"Switching effortlessly between laugh-out-loud comedy and tender romance, 'Lost In Translation' is a triumph for all involved (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Coppola does a fair job of capturing the fish-tank ambience of nocturnal, upscale Tokyo and showing how it feels to be a stranger in that world, and an excellent job of getting the most from her lead actors. Unfortunately, I'm not sure she accomplishes anything else."	NEU
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"An amazing motion picture (...) 'Lost in Translation' is smart and perceptive about how people interact on a personal level (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"[It establishes] Coppola as a major filmmaker in her own right, and reconfirming Johansson and Murray as actors of startling depth and power."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Tart and sweet, unmistakably funny and exceptionally well observed (...) This is a filmmaker who doesn’t promise more than she can deliver"	POS

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