Lost in Translation [Blu-ray]

Director: Sofia Coppola Sofia Coppola

Overview

After making a striking directorial debut with her screen adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola offers a story of love and friendship blooming under unlikely circumstances in this comedy drama. Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a well-known American actor whose career has gone into a tailspin; needing work, he takes a very large fee to appear in a commercial for Japanese whiskey to be shot in Tokyo. Feeling no small degree of culture shock in Japan, Bob spends most of his non-working hours at his hotel, where he meets Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) at the bar. Twentysomething Charlotte is married to John (Giovanni Ribisi), a successful photographer who is in Tokyo on an assignment, leaving her to while away her time while he works. Beyond their shared bemusement and confusion with the sights and sounds of contemporary Tokyo, Bob and Charlotte share a similar dissatisfaction with their lives; the spark has gone out of Bob's marriage, and he's become disillusioned with his career. Meanwhile, Charlotte is puzzled with how much John has changed in their two years of marriage, while she's been unable to launch a creative career of her own. Bob and Charlotte become fast friends, and as they explore Tokyo, they begin to wonder if their sudden friendship might be growing into something more.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/04/2011
UPC:	0025192058141
Original Release:	2003
Rating:	R
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Sound:	[Digital Theater Systems]
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00
Sales rank:	1,137

Special Features

Deleted Scenes; On the Set of Sofia Coppola's Somewhere; A Conversation With Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola; "Lost" On Location; Matthew's Best Hit TV; Kevin Shields "City Girl" Music Video

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bill Murray	Bob Harris
Scarlett Johansson	Charlotte
Giovanni Ribisi	John
Anna Faris	Kelly
Akiko Takeshita	Nti. Kawasaki
Catherine Lambert	Actor
Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe	Actor
Kazuko Shibata	Actor
Take	Actor
Ryuichiro Baba	Actor
Akira Yamaguchi	Actor
Francois du Bois	Actor
Tim Leffman	Actor
Gregory Pekar	Actor
Richard Allen	Actor
Yutaka Tadokoro	Actor
Jun Maki	Actor
Nao Asuka	Actor
Tetsuro Naka	Actor
Kanako Nakazato	Actor
Fumihiro Hayashi	Actor
Hiroko Kawasaki	Actor
Daikon	Actor
Asuka Shimuzu	Actor
Ikuko Takahashi	Actor
Koichi Tanaka	Actor
Hugo Codaro	Actor
Akiko Monou	Actor
Hiromix	Actor
Hiroshi Kawashima	Actor
Akimitsu Naruyama	Actor
Nobuhiko Kitamura	Actor
Nao Kitman	Actor
Kunichi Nomura	Actor
Kazuo Yamada	Actor
Yasuhiko Hattori	Actor
Shigekazu Aida	Actor
Akira Motomura	Actor
Osamu Shigematu	Actor
Mathew Minami	Actor
Kei Takyo	Actor
Ryo Kondo	Actor
Yumi Ikeda	Actor
Yumika Saki	Actor
Diedrich Bollman	Actor
Georg O.P. Eschert	Actor
Yuji Okabe	Actor
Mark Willms	Actor
Lisle Wilkerson	Actor
Kevin Shields	Composer
Brian Reitzell	Composer
Roger Joseph Manning Jr.	Composer
William Storkson	Composer
Air	Composer

Technical Credits

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola	Director,Screenwriter,Executive Producer,Producer
Fred Roos	Executive Producer
Ross Katz	Producer
Ryoichi Kondo	Casting
Hirofumi Nakase	Stunts
Richard Beggs	Sound/Sound Designer
Drew Kunin	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is a low-key but emotionally penetrating story that contains a multitude of feelings. Simultaneously delicate and assured, the film is about two people who find each other at the right time in their lives. Scarlett Johansson's confused and lonely Charlotte is smart enough to know that her marriage may be a mistake, but she is not emotionally equipped to know how to handle the problem. Her outstanding performance balances sadness, intelligence, vulnerability, and self-possession. Bill Murray gives the finest performance of his career as the actor who is, thanks to an emotionally stunted marriage and a sell-out career move, suffering from a mid-life crisis. Bob Harris could keep people at a distance with his comedic armor, much like Bill Murray, but he is at a phase in life where he is tired of acting that way. Murray delivers a disciplined, nuanced performance that deserves the highest forms of praise. Coppola herself shows that The Virgin Suicides was not beginner's luck. She frames Japan so that the audience feels how "foreign" it is for her two protagonists, while still showing great respect for the people and the culture even when her characters, in their more selfish moments, do not. With two films to her credit, Sofia Coppola has proven herself to be a master of tone and indirect characterization. The natures of the people in this film are revealed through behavior and through conversations that usually have very little to do with the plot. We get a glimpse of the depth of Charlotte's unhappiness in a phone call to a friend, and Bob's karaoke performance reveals his contained emotions for this young woman who has touched him in ways he believed were untouchable. Lost in Translation is a beautiful film. It is beautifully shot, but most importantly what passes between Bob and Charlotte is beautiful. Their time together will stay with each of them, and the viewer, for a very long time.