As usual I'm late in seeing good movies. This one has been running for a while now and I only saw it last weekend. It is however truly excellent!
I've always liked Bill Murray and felt that, given the right part, he could do far better then he did on his 80s comedies (Stripes, Ghost Busters, etc.). Who would have thought that waiting for this "right part" would take some 20-odd years? Playing a jetlagged, fading actor with a lousy marriage and a midlife crisis seems to come natural to him. Although the utterly aliens atmosphere of Tokyo helps to make his "lost-ness" feel even more real it really isn't needed all that much. It could have just as easily been Paris or Stockholm.
Next to him Scarlett Johansson plays a vibrant young woman crushed by a life she doesn't yet know what to do with. I've seen her play in "Girl with a Pearl Earring" recently but I have to say that where she was "good" in that one, in "Lost" she is excellent.
If you don't mind movies that don't feature loads of violence and explosions or juvenile humor you should go and see this one.
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