WHAT MORE CAN I SAY?

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 2003)

I loved this film! I am a huge Bill Murray fan and this goes up among my favorite of his films.
In this mesmerizing feature directed by Sofia Coppola (daughter of Francis Ford Coppola), Bill Murray plays an aging actor who travels to Japan to film a series of commercials but ends up being more miserable than he has ever felt in his life. There he meets a beautiful young girl (Scarlett Johansson), who is equally out of place.
Together, they form a bond that leds to dark nightclubs and on outrageuous chases. And unknowing to each either, they are beginning to fall in love with each other.
Any other film would have had the love more apparent but this movie was not about the love but more about there friendship and them being people. It was about reality and having a character that the audience could relate to.

Some of the most brilliant parts of the movie come from simply Bill and Scarlett talking to one another:
Charlotte: I just don't know what I'm supposed to be. Bob Harris: You'll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
The movie is funny and in the same instant touching. It will make you laugh and bring tears to your eyes. "Lost in Translation" is one of the most brilliant films I have ever seen!!!!!!
(11 out of 10 Stars!!) - Bravo Sofia! Bravo!