A platonic relationship about nothing

Rating: 4/10 (28 August 2017)

Drama with a pinch of romance written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), recently graduated, is in Tokyo with her husband while he does his work as a photographer there; she is unemployed so just wanders around the hotel room doing nothing or goes to the bar and does nothing more days on end, dealing with her existentialist crisis. Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a famous actor who also happens to be in Tokyo staying at the same hotel due to advertisement commitments. Far from his wife and children he goes through a middle-age crisis. Charlotte and Bob know each other and develop a platonic relationship about nothing.
The movie, for me, would work better with an older actress and a younger actor so it does not look like the "wet dream of the pedophile in the closet" or the "fetish of a teenage girl with old men" (given the rating it seems that there are a lot of those around). With a whole city and loads of money available to them, these two do nothing but eat and drink in shabby places or staying in bed talking about their crises. Why not make the least effort of sightseeing? They are in Tokyo, a tourist heaven! What is a romance without it, even if a platonic one? What really baffles me is how could this movie won awards for its argument when it is about NOTHING?!? The premise could be funny if only with different actors and actually worked upon, and could even make a good romance if Sofia Coppola made an effort not to be so tedious in her art.