Sofia Coppola

Two Americans who cannot sleep keep meeting in the bar of a Tokyo hotel neither has a reason to leave, and Lost in Translation lets them do very little about it. The films return to enclosure of that kind: a suburban house the Lisbon sisters cannot leave in The Virgin Suicides, a Chateau Marmont suite in Somewhere, Graceland in Priscilla. Someone is inside a comfortable room, being looked at, with time they cannot spend.

Signature

• Luxurious enclosure filmed as confinement.
• Young women observed from inside their own boredom.
• Pop needle-drops doing the emotional work dialogue declines.
• Endings that withhold the confirming line.

Films here also carry Coming of Age, Midlife Crisis, Cultural Dislocation, Loneliness & Isolation, Identity Crisis.