Very superficial

Rating: 4/10 (26 June 2020)

I already had a feel of Sofia Coppola's work before seeing her most well known movie, by having watched the Beguiled and read some articles about her style. Yet, I felt I needed to watch Lost in Translation to have an informed opinion.
To me, every single aspect of this movie came out as very superficial. The plot, the exploration of the Japanese surroundings, the characters and their bond and even the photography, which although beautiful, was not enough to save this movie, or to make it comparable to the slow paced European films whose main quality is the cinematography.
I believe the idea could have been explored much deeper. The film could either keep the aesthetics and lose the romance (or whatever that was, the inexistent relation between the characters) OR spend more time developing a connection which would have made the "emotional" scene at the ending justified.
Not knowing which direction you are going in or having a midlife crisis are not good enough premises to assume depth in the story.