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Feb 13, 2023 · What Lost in Translation Is About and Why It's Special. Focus Features. Set in early 2000s Tokyo, Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film Lost in Translation utilizes this contemplatively atmospheric...
Sep 26, 2023 · One way to look at Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, which turns 20 years old this month, is as a movie that puts that callow mantra to the test. Sleepwalking through a neon-rainbow Tokyo on...
- Adam Nayman
Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film [note 1] written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whisky.
Aug 12, 2023 · Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, starring Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray, was one of the most renowned films of 2003. It garnered endless praise for the performances of the two leads as well as Coppola's direction and script, which ultimately led to it taking home the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (as well as two other ...
- Contributor
Aug 27, 2018 · Fifteen years later, “Lost in Translation” continues to be a hallmark of indie cinema, no doubt thanks to Coppola’s elusive ending. The final scene finds Bill whispering in Charlotte’s ear ...
- Zack Sharf
Oct 24, 2023 · Sofia Coppola’s 2003 polemic against individualism is striking a chord with Gen Z, the loneliest living generation. When Sofia Coppola debuted her second feature-length film, Lost in Translation, at the Telluride Film Festival in August 2003, the film received widespread critical acclaim.
So what’s so special about this movie? An experienced actor whose career is in an obvious downfall comes to Tokyo to shoot a whisky commercial. Calm and half-depressed, at the same time desperately stuck and accepting this fact with dignity and stoicism, the actor spends his nights at the hotel bar in silence.
