Kevin Shields
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Lost in Translation: Music from the Motion Picture
Brian Reitzell, Kevin Shields
Sofia Coppola has, with two elegant movies, proved herself a talented director with a keen eye for interior life. She’s also got great ears. For Lost in Translation, the story of a May to December friendship in Tokyo between two displaced Americans, the score is a tonic for jetlag. Coppola prescribes a dose of shoegazer pop, from My Bloody Valentine’s chiming “Sometimes” to Jesus & Mary Chain’s fuzzed-out “Just Like Honey”. The music nails the hazy conscious state of actors Bill Murray (as a movie star in a midlife crisis) and Scarlet Johansson (as an…
