This intellectual finds no art here

Rating: Null/10 (14 March 2004)

As a person who spent two and a half years living in Japan and meeting many expatriates with whom I had platonic intimacy I was excited to see this movie. Tokyo is one wild city, safe, energetic and bouncing between the ancient and ultramodern like no other. I thought the director did a fine job of expressing the city.
Much has been written about people not getting this movie. But silence is not art. I love the movies, but movies are barely art in their best days. This was a slow moving and dull film. I am an intellectual with a high IQ, and it's not that I don't get what Sophia Coppola's trying to get across here, but long stretches of redundant scenes does not qualify as art. I don't mind a story in which there is little dialog, but it shouldn't be boring in the silent stretches.Bill Murray sarcastic and bored, that's not something new, sorry. This is not a great performance, at least it's no acting stretch for him. When I think of a movie with an intense character where there is little dialog I will watch The Big Blue, not Lost in Translation.