My mother, my sister and me wanted to do something fun Saturday evening. We tried to get a fourth person to play Settlers of Catan, but we didn’t find anybody, so we thought of going to the cinemas. Turned out only ‘Der Untergang’ and ‘Closer’ were worth watching, but we weren’t really interested in those, so we went to the movie rent store and rented ‘Lost In Translation’.

I knew ‘Lost In Translation’ from the 2004 Academy Awards where it won an Oscar, so I knew it had to be good. And I must say… It is good :).

It’s some kind of romantic comedy with a little drama. Not usually what gets me on, but I really liked it. Excellent performances from both Bill Murray and Scarlet Johannson.

Two nice taglines:

A movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected newlywed meet up as strangers in Tokyo and form an unlikely bond.

Americans abroad, almost innocents. Charlotte, fresh out of Yale with a degree in philosophy, is in Tokyo with her husband, a photographer whose work takes him away that week. She’s adrift, her soul on ice. Bob, mid-50s, a semi-retired movie star, is there to make $2 million doing a whiskey ad. At home are a wife and young children, but he’s jaded and melancholy. Both are jet-lagged, and Tokyo’s culture and language push them further off kilter. When they meet in the hotel bar and spend their free time together for a few days, possibilities arise amidst the losses. Their friendship becomes an experience: does he have something to teach; can she reconnect him to life?

All in all, it was a very interesting story with good acting, so I can definitely recommend it, and… It felt very familiar in a mysterious way…