Lost in Translation

Before Scarlett Johannsson became a pouty A-lister peddling perfume she was the perfect wide-eyed ingénue, stuck in Tokyo with no one to talk to except Bill Murray in this classic, deadpan Sofia Coppola comedy. Murray plays a washed up actor in a similarly sad rut. Their unlikely friendship could have turned creepy in the wrong hands but Coppola beautifully honed in on the irony of loneliness in the city, of finding salvation with a stranger, no matter their life story.