Fabulous Movie!

Rating: Null/10 (12 April 2004)

Wow oh wow...I love this. After the disaster that was Love Actually, this film has restored my faith in romantic comedies!
The script and the acting in Lost In Translation were magnificent. I am not usually a Bill Murray fan but he was wonderful in this. So too was Scarlett Johansson. After this film and the equally-wonderful Girl With A Pearl Earring, she is most definitely a star of the future.
Why this film did not win more Oscars, I'll never know. Murray was superb...I loved everything about his performance. The scene where he was shooting the whisky commercial was too funny. And the platonic relationship with Charlotte (Johansson) was so sweetly handled. The screenplay was fantastic, of course, but I loved the way that the characters were able to convey so much emotion without words. I loved the ending, it was incredibly sweet...you get the feeling that the lives of these two lonely souls will never be the same again. I also loved the music and the art direction and cinematography were outstanding...you really felt as if Tokyo was a character in the film. I have never been to Japan but I definitely want to go now...I loved this movie so much!
A great film, which, unusually for a rom-com, deals with very believable people and situations. I can't wait for it to come out on DVD. Highly recommended.