I absolutely fell in love with this film!

Rating: 9/10 (1 November 2014)

I have to admit: I absolutely fell in love with this film!
For one, the characters are great and so likable... The entire film I just kept wanting to see more of their odd, unconventional chemistry. Both Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson (my favourite role I've seen so far from her) do excellent jobs at the acting, helping make the two very different characters work and feel real, with real problems and real humour & sense for fun.
Sofia Coppola (interestingly the daughter to The Godfather director, Francis Ford Coppola) directs this film so very beautifully... The pacing is perfect and the way she has also written the film is also very nice.
Along with this, the cinematography is very warm, comforting and even breathtaking. There are also some very nice scenery shots of Tokyo. It's a very pretty film.
Not much actually happens in the film, it's basically held together through the acting, scripting and directing etc. and yet it still entertains! Everything just adds up so neatly and it creates one of those rare films where I just feel happy to be watching the characters and on-screen world and you literally escape into it.
I give the film a very, very strong 9.4/10 (yup, I really did like this film THAT much). It may be one of my top 20 favourite films... I just loved it.