Lost in Translation (2003)

Cast/Avec Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Anna Faris, Giovanni Ribisi, Fumihiro Hayashi, Akiko Takeshita, Hiroko Kawasaki, Daikon, Akiko Monou, Nobuhiko Kitamura …

Aging movie star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has arrived in Tokyo to film a Suntory whiskey advertisement (a reference to real-life Hollywood actors who do foreign celebrity advertising, including Sofia Coppola's father, Francis Ford Coppola, who did Suntory commercials with Akira Kurosawa during the filming of Kagemusha). Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) is the young wife of a celebrity photographer on assignment in Tokyo. Left behind by her husband when he goes to his photo shoots, she is unsure of her present and her future and about the man she has married. Bob's relationship with his wife of 25 years is clearly tired and lacking in romance, as revealed in his telephone calls back to the US. Bob and Charlotte, both lonely and aimless, meet in the bar of the hotel where they are both staying and strike up a friendship. The two explore Tokyo together, experiencing the differences between Japanese and American culture. The two grow close through their adventures and the time they spend together when neither can sleep.

Bob Harris, la quarantaine avancée, est une star de la télévision sur le déclin. Venu à Tokyo tourner une publicité pour une marque de whisky, il séjourne dans un grand hôtel où il fait la connaissance de Charlotte, une jeune Américaine dans la vingtaine qui accompagne son mari photographe, accaparé par un important contrat. Souffrant tous deux de solitude et d'insomnie, Bob et Charlotte multiplient les prétextes pour se revoir et sortir ensemble. Il en profitent alors pour mieux se connaître et partager leurs désillusions et leurs incertitudes face à l'avenir. Une complicité tendre et réconfortante va se développer entre ces deux êtres qui se sentent un peu déboussolés dans cette grande ville si dépaysante pour eux.