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Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2018)

My Rating : 8/10
I've seen 'Lost in Translation' many, many times and think it's absolutely magical.
It's 'Lost-souls-in-a-foreign-land' sweet premise is a breath of fresh air. Bill Murray, a washed-up actor now, is visiting Japan to film a few commercials on a Whiskey brand with a nagging wife absent physically but very much present through her flustered calls, faxes and FedEx deliveries. Scarlett Johansson, on the other hand, is a fairly recent university graduate and also a relatively recent newlywed to a photographer husband on an assignment who seems to be away a lot and not really present for her mentally, leaving her miserable and lost.
It is a humanistic portrayal of how two strangers meet. Sofia Coppola directs and writes this downbeat, subtle, short-lived romance between two lost souls who meet in a foreign land dealing with it's culture and language differences and share their mutual feelings of feeling abandonment and loneliness. It reminds me of other classics such as 'Brief Encounter' and 'The Bridges of Madison County'.
'Lost in Translation' is hushed and intimate just as that whisper at the end. An absolute must-see and one of my favourites!