Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation” is a film that greatly benefitted from being released before online discourse consumed pop culture.
The arthouse classic, which offers a nuanced depiction of a fleeting connection between two lonely travelers (played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson), could have easily been consumed by debates about the ethics of age gap relationships if it came out in the age of Twitter.As many cinephiles use the film’s 20th anniversary as an excuse to revisit it, questions about the romantic connection at its core occasionally emerge.
But as Coppola rolls out her latest film, “Priscilla,” she isn’t eager to relitigate the morality of “Lost in Translation.”In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Coppola said that watching the film with her children provoked a different reaction than she expected.
While the age difference between the 52-year-old Murray and the 17-year-old Johansson struck her kids as odd,…
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