Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation is screening at Gloucester Guildhall on Saturday 7 November, showing in the Chamber Cinema. It's Sofia Coppola's Oscar-winning story of an unlikely friendship set in early-aughts Tokyo, and it's one of those films that works just as well on a big screen as it does at home.

Bill Murray plays Bob, an ageing film star who's in the city to shoot a Japanese whiskey commercial. Scarlett Johansson is Charlotte, a conflicted newlywed there with her celebrity-photographer husband. They meet by chance in a hotel bar, and from there they find humour, solace and companionship in each other's company. It's a quiet, character-driven piece that lets the two of them carry the weight of it, and the Tokyo setting does a lot of the heavy lifting, capturing that specific feeling of being a stranger in a city where you don't speak the language.

Along with Murray and Johansson, the cast includes Giovanni Ribisi and Anna Faris. The film runs 101 minutes, and it's recommended for ages 15 and over. If you've seen it before, it's the kind of thing that holds up on a second watch; if you haven't, it's a good place to start with Coppola's work.

Tickets start from £6.50, and the screening is on Saturday 7 November at the Guildhall's Chamber Cinema.