Poetic Photography

Rating: 9/10 (13 March 2004)

This is a film about loneliness. I haven't seen another movie where loneliness was portrayed with such subtlety and frankness. It is like every scene of the movie is like a "lonely still photograph". Sofia Coppola manages to show us photography embedded into cinema. If you watch it carefully you can actually print photographs of scenes into your mind, and can later look at them and see how they come together and build a story about being lost in a remote, noisy, strange world. You can also see a story about a man and a woman who find something that can be described as a flow of mutual emotions without using words to describe them. Sounds poetic, doesn't it? Well, thats what Sofia Coppola has achieved with her directing: Poetic Photography. 9/10