Hearts apart alone

People seeking connection

A whisky glass drops

This is not the movie I was expecting.

If you watch the trailers and read most of the promos - and a number of the reviews - Lost in Translation comes off as a fairly standard romantic comedy, with a little Japanese flavoring.

It has funny moments (Hey, Bill Murray) and there is romance (Hey, Scarlett Johannson), but at its heart it is a serious and sometimes painful look at connection and love.

Written and directed by Sophia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides and much more), the film tells the story of two people at very different points in their lives - Murray, a faded Hollywood celebrity who is still “Big in Japan” and on a trip to Tokyo to appear in some whisky ads - and a super young (she was around 19 when this was filmed) Johannson, as a recent college grad in the city with her photographer husband.

The gulf in age (Murray was 53) and life experience between the two is striking, and Coppola has some gentle fun with it, but the two share a profound - if generally unstated - unhappiness with their lives and relationships (both are married). While neither are seeking something else, when they accidently meet you can feel the sparks. We won’t spoil the way their relationship develops, but it is sweet. And sad. And a story that you will remember.

You can catch Lost in Translation HERE.

A Strong Four out of Five Glasses of Suntory.

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