Suzanne Ferriss takes a close look at Sofia Coppola's celebrated Lost in Translation (2003). Mirroring the film's structuring metaphors of travel, Ferris' analysis takes the form of a trip. Throughout, her emphasis is on establishing the film not only as a cinema classic, but as classic Coppola.
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