![]() Jonze and Coppola were married and then divorced. The movie also acts as a fascinating mirror to Spike Jonze’s Her. Punctuated with gorgeous scenes of Tokyo city and nightlife, the movie is also a showcase for Murray at his improvisatory best often dropping spur of the moment one liners as if it was nothing to think of them. The two meet each other in the Tokyo hotel at which they’re staying and proceed to spend the weekend together. The movie is powered by the performances of Scarlett Johannson as Charlotte, disenchanted in her marriage to a famous movie director, and Bill Murray as Bob Harris, a middle aged American star, taking a break from his own marriage by shooting a whiskey commercial. A semi-autobiographical comedy about two Americans having personal crises while in Japan who find each other, Lost in Translation manages to be simultaneously hilarious, emotional, deeply earnest, biting. We follow this with Coppola’s breakout second feature Lost in Translation. Many of Coppola’s trademarks are here, her focus on the female psyche at the center of her movies, her dreamlike and otherworldly approach to cinematography, all, nevertheless, rooted in often deep and anguished emotion. ![]() With the same commitment to an unexplainable mystery that pervades every scene as the Australian Picnic at Hanging Rock, Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides plays as a kind of desperate search for an innocent American adolescence that may have never really existed. Much like the Hustons and Barrymores in acting, the Coppolas have now produced three generations of writer/directors.Įveryone was stunned and entranced by Sofia Coppola’s debut which follows the strange suicidal death of a group of mysterious sisters in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and how it affects everyone in the community. It should probably have come as no surprise that the daughter of two very talented moviemakers would herself take up the family business. Coppola’s debut feature The Virgin Suicides. Tonight we kick off our two part Sofia Soiree series of four movies by Sofia Coppola. We haven’t really seen him as this debonair, playboy father at this stage, so I just had to get over it because now we’re in a different phase. “But, all this time has passed, and I loved working with him and I love seeing him in film. “I never thought I could do something with Bill again, because people have such a fondness of him and ‘Lost in Translation.’ I could never recreate something like that, so I never wanted to touch it,” Coppola told EW. Sofia and I have had a lot of parallel emotional milestones and ‘On the Rocks’ represents that, too.”Ĭoppola said in forming a friendship with Jones, the “lovable, smart, and strong” actor was helped her shape the “On the Rocks” character, a Manhattan writer and mom who suspects her husband (Marlon Wayans) is cheating on her, and enlists her bachelor father (Murray) to do some detective work. “It was such a formative acting experience for me to dig into a character that deeply. I had a lot in common with the character at the time, struggling with my identity and loneliness in a relationship,” Jones said. “Sofia has a quiet power and elegance that I have been in awe of since the first time we met. The experience was enlightening for Jones, then in her mid-20s. ‘Priscilla’ Teaser: Jacob Elordi Is Elvis in Sofia Coppola’s Presley Biopic “When I was working on ‘Lost in Translation,’ I was workshopping the script at an acting class, and she played the role that Scarlett Johansson ended up playing,” Coppola said, who also worked with Jones on her 2015 Netflix film “A Very Murray Christmas.” “I remember first working with her then and always having a connection to her and really liking her!” The exchange also cemented a creative relationship now realized in Coppola’s upcoming dramedy “ On the Rocks,” starring Jones opposite “Lost in Translation” lead Bill Murray, and opening (though no formal date has been set) this October from A24 and Apple TV+. ![]() As revealed to Entertainment Weekly, Jones was part of an early workshop read of the screenplay for “Lost in Translation,” which went on to win Coppola the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. But, it turns out, Coppola also found inspiration for the character from actress Rashida Jones. Scarlett Johansson’s adrift philosophy grad Charlotte in “ Lost in Translation” is largely believed to be based on writer/director Sofia Coppola’s own state of mind during her marriage to Spike Jonze. ![]()
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