A story of love and friendship blooming under unlikely circumstances.

Rating: 9/10 (2 July 2010)

The film creeps up on you and finds its way into your heart so that you just don't want to say goodbye. A washed-up American actor (Bill Murray) in Tokyo to shoot a whisky commercial meets a bored young woman (Scarlett Johansson), all but ignored by her photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi).
Lost In Translation is a thin slip of a film, perhaps, and one that tends to view Japan as unbridgeably foreign, an approach which led to charges of racism. But its moods and textures cast a beguiling spell, and director Sofia Coppola proves especially sensitive to actors: the film positioned Johansson as the face of her generation, and more significantly gave Murray several of his finest moments in years.