Clever, sweet, atmospheric, well-written film owes a certain something to
Brief Encounter and catches the experience of both modern day hotel dwelling and modern day Japan brilliantly, and is frequently very funny and well observed. Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray are perfect. We had to stop the film at one point to talk about how some actors can do really funny stuff purely physically, Bill being one - Jack Lemmon being a great example. Murray is definitely in the same Club as Lemmon and Matthau, Scarlett perhaps needs more dramatic roles to really show off her stuff (though maybe I need to watch
Under the Skin first).
Sofia is also doing interesting things with the soundtrack, not just the music choices, but stuff like the air conditioning noise in the corridors.
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| Scarlett's bum is the first image of this female director's film. Just saying... |
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| The two ladies trying extremely hard not to laugh in the background make this hysterically funny |
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