Lost In Translation

We caught Lost in Translation tonight at the BAM Rose Cinemas. LIT is set in an anonymous Tokyo hotel in the present day. Bill Murray plays the aging actor Bob who is in Tokyo for a few days to tape a commercial. Scarlett Johansson plays Charlotte, the wife of a commercial photographer on assignment in Japan. Bob and Charlotte are bored out of their minds. It's a fun movie, moreso if you've ever been to Tokyo and don't understand Japanese. The only things they missed were the taxis with automatic doors, the guy whose job at the hotel is to pass his hand in front of the electric eye on the door, and the using a plate to exchange all money. On the downside, I can't get the Bill Murray rendition of Elvis Costello's Peace, Love and Understanding out of my head.