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Gothamist's pick for any kind of moviegoing this weekend is by far, Lost in Translation, the best movie we've seen in a very long time. We were struck by it when we first saw it, and may have to see it again soon as it opens today. It has a brilliant performance from Bill Murray, who is being talked up for an Oscar nod at the very least (let's hope, unlike when he was last mentioned in the same breath as Oscar during Rushmore, the Academy actually nominates him).
Elvis Mitchell waxes about it, calling it touching, hilarious, and sexy, comparing it to other movies about intense, short-lived not neccessarily consummated relationship: Brief Encounter, Before Sunrise, and In the Mood for Love . He also notes similarities in tone to Bizarre Love Triangle. Ah, Elvis and his love of Britpop. The Daily News' Jack Matthews calls Lost "smartly written, confidently directed."
greg.org has a wonderful interview with Sofia Coppola. Sofia is a "director with a vision," according to Kate Betts in Time.
And the Toronto Star calls Scarlett the festival It girl (Toronto, Venice) with Lost and Girl With The Pearl Earring, the adaptation of the novel about Vermeer.
Gothamist on Lost in Translation.
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I dunno. I think the plot is pretty thin. For a 20-something girl, who is deprived of absolutely nothing, to hang around in her undies in one of the world's most expensive hotels -- and feel morose, bored by it?
I'm also just not digging Scarlett's Brigitte Neilsen 'do. I like the natural locks and the sweater vests.
The plot, for me, is deceptively thin. And she's supposed to be 25 in the movie, and I related to that ennui of "What am I doing? What do I have going on? My life, what is it?" even while being educated and very fortunate. The movie haunts me, but I'm a sucker of unrequited love stories as well.
my friend is friends with the dp who worked on "lost" and according to him, sofia was very indecisive as a director. she had no idea how to setup particular shots, and had a "whatever" attitude about everything. also, scarlett never remembered her lines and is supposedly very stupid.
I agree with pity party pooper. If Coppola's goal was to make me want to go to Tokyo, stay at that bad-ass hotel and be picked up by a movie star in the hotel bar, then she succeeded. If her goal was to make me feel for Bob and Charlotte as interesting people or nuanced characters, then she failed. I wanted to shout "You're in Tokyo. You've got plenty of money. What's your problem?" And I don't think the movie really made a good case for me to change my initial, and admittedly embittered, appraisal of those characters.
It was pretty to look at and featured "Too Young" by Phoenix, a song I love, to greater effect than "Shallow Hal."
yea! I've been waiting to want to see a movie. the summer was lame.
fusskins, sounds like my take on "The Virgin Suicides". Pretty to look at and lots of style but lacking substance. I'll wait for cable.
I have a couple of friends who worked in Tokyo right after college. They had to have a day job and a night job to make ends meet -- and they lived in dirty little ryokans and gaijin houses where you have to cook on a hot plate and squat over a hole to take a crap.
If they ran into Charlotte wandering outside her hotel whining about how clueless she was about her future they'd beat her up, take her camera and her iPod, and tell her to go get a fucking job...or two.
I am eagerly awaiting this movie, but am disturbed by its comparisons to Before Sunrise, because even my love for Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater could not make me hate that movie any less.
One review compared it to "American Beauty", which is enough to make me not see it. But I will, if only to relive for a short while the feeling of being a gaijin in Japan...
Don't confuse subtlety for a weak plot. This is a very good movie. Give it a shot, but go in without preconceptions.
Nah. American Beauty has much, much better fleshed-out emotional points and more complex characters. And the familial issues at hand in American Beauty are simply more compelling than watching two spoiled people feeling mildly discontent about their lives of extreme entitlement and privilege.
Don't confuse subtlety for a non-event.
Wow. Lots of class issues at work in the comments section today.
Let's face it, Sofia Coppola is Paris Hilton with a more culturally dynamic upbringing.
I truly enjoyed the Virgin Suicides and Lost In Translation, and I do think she's talented. But she has been blessed with a lot of resources as well, so perhaps that's where the bitterness is. It'd be one thing if she weren't talented (then I'd be on the bandwagon as well), but I was moved by her films. Also, Spike Jonze - heir to the Spiegel catalog fortune, so does one call him ...Cameron Douglas with an interest in skateboarding?
Let's call him a quirky Stephen Bing.
the thing is sofia isn't talented. i have some friends who have worked with her. she is blessed because she was born into a famous family, and has incredible connections.
I can't wait until my midlife crisis. I'll make sure to be drinking santori in tokyo.
As for Sofia Coppola not being a talented director, that's just jealousy talking. I guess if you can't separate who directed the movie (with her background) and the backgrounds of the characters, you can't enjoy the movie. The move was well crafted, and I forgot about all that and just watched two people meet and interact at a certain point in their lives. Good stuff. Who wants to go see it again with me?