its all about atmosphere

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2004)

Just allow me a very short comment on this wonderful movie. I CAN understand why film-critics are so ga-ga about this film. It s just a wonderful flick with Sophia not even trying to fulfil what maybe fans of e.g. "Lord of the rings" would expect of a movie: a plot as the main and substancial part of a film. There IS a plot, and I think its not less original than the plots of most movies, because its quite a common theme: midlife-crisis and love - and this doesn t necessarliy have to mean that with this quite often used theme you couldn t make a extraordenary movie - it s the opposite thing: sometimes its even harder to make a good movie about an old theme. And Sophia reachs this goal. With "Lost in translation" she made an extraordinary movie - a movie thats oh so fresh! The marvelous acting, beautiful pictures and with love developed characters in this film create an atmosphere of warmth, desperateness, happiness and seriousness all in one! After "The Virgin Suicides" that were hard to top, she did it again. I looked forward for this movie a long time, because I loved her previous work, and she didn t disappoint me, although, or maybe because she made something different, but with her clear signature! Congratulations, Sophia!