I just saw Sofia Coppola's movie in the original. It's a nice film though a tad stereotypical on Japan in places. For example in the beginning when the Japanese director talks and talks and talks and the interpreter translates it into just one phrase: "Look into the camera". Or the scene in the night club where the owner chases a guy who tries to start a fight with a kind of machine-gun. Does this really happen to you in Tokyo? I somehow doubt it.

Bill Murray and this young blonde actress are a weird couple. They seem to be lost in translation too. Everyone seems to be in this film. Murray and his wife take the cake with telephone conversations where Murray just says "who?", "hello", several "ok's" and "bye".

Some nice music. I think I have never heard a My Bloody Valentine track in a movie. Sofia Coppola didn't pick the worst with Sometimes from Loveless. Quite sad though that Kevin Shields excellent new composition City Girl only gets played at the credits at the end. Bill Murray's dry and deadpan karaoke interpretation of Roxy Music's More than this isn't bad neither.

P.S. Some infos on the extras of the DVD over at largehearted boy.

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