Jason
@lewishamdreamer.bsky.social
4y ago
I remain madly in love with Lost in Translation so it’s a real shock not to have enjoyed this much at all. Sofia Coppola’s latest feels written to order for Apple TV+ with the strict instructions to be as bland and obvious as possible. It’s a shame, given how good Murray and Rashida Jones are (Marlon Wayans is a very strange casting choice), but where LoT was all about existential confusion at the end of the century, this is...nothing. The ‘is he/isn’t he cheating’ schtick is so overdone and neither Coppola nor Murray add anything of value here. Their scenes together have energy because even at his worst Bill Murray is mesmerising, but the conclusion is easily guessable, the tensions are thin and direction phoned in.
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