Nice. A really nice film.

Rating: Null/10 (11 February 2004)

Above anything else this film has made me fall in love with two people, Scarlett Johannson and Sofia Coppola. And admire one other, Bill Murray. The two leads for their understated and real performances and the young director for her wise old soul. Lost In Translation is a small film that takes real big breaths and takes such a warm thoughtful look at two lost souls bumping in the night and connecting on a profound level that I was easily lost in the whole thing. The word that I kept thinking through the whole film was, "real" everything seemed so real, the conversations, the characters, the story and the world that all these pieces uncomfortably fit in. I loved it but I wouldn't recommend it to too many people simply because some may find it too slow or boring or pointless. I understand that perspective but I don't agree with it and would hope that most people open their hearts and minds to it because if they don't all will be lost in translation.