Lost In Translation
Reviewed By Sarah Downing

Bob (Bill Murray) is an ageing actor, earning what he can with an appearance in a Japanese whiskey advert.

Staying in the same hotel is Charlotte (Scarlet Johansson), a young recently married woman, accompanying her photographer husband on a work trip to Tokyo.

These two strangers find themselves drawn to each other, thanks to their shared feelings of insomnia and isolation in a country that is foreign to them.

The unlikely pair form a quick bond and soon build a strong, if unusual friendship, while exploring the fascinating city of Tokyo together.

Sophia Coppola’s follow up to her debut feature, The Virgin Suicides, is quite simply wonderful.

By using two characters that appear to have nothing in common, she tells a story of love and friendship based purely on circumstance, and achieves fantastic results.

Lost In Translation is a modern and stylish film, but the basic outline follows the style of a classic love story with such restraint and passion that the overall feature is just a heartbreaking tale of a love affair that can never be.