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“I just feel so alone, even when I'm surrounded by other people.”
- Charlotte
Everyone wants to
be found.
Bob Harris is an American actor whose career seems to be running out of steam. He leaves for Tokyo to shoot a commercial. Once there, he has a hard time adjusting to the city and spends most of his time in his luxury hotel. There, he meets Charlotte, a young American recent graduate who has come to accompany her photographer husband, John.
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Why this movie?
A film of great delicacy by Sofia Coppola, in which the loneliness of two souls, a disillusioned actor and a young wife searching for meaning, is set against the silent turmoil of Tokyo.
We are struck by the way Coppola captures the moments “in between”: the glances, the pauses, the boredom that gradually becomes palpable.
The setting of the hotel/city functions as a third character, giving the encounter between these two beings an almost timeless quality.
The city become an active witness to the story.
Through a perfect balance of humor and melancholy, the director plays with the feeling of losing one's place in a world that never stops.
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