Author: Osamudiamen Joe

Sofia Coppola (Somewhere, The Beguiled) often frames her characters gazing out of car windows, quiet and deep in contemplation, desperately searching for answers to their plight as the outside world carries on with its business. It’s one of her directorial calling cards, and it’s an effective way of putting us in a character’s headspace: drenched in melancholy and trapped in a metal cocoon, unable to share in the freedom and vitality just beyond the windows. In her 2003 film, Lost in Translation, that shot is employed at the beginning and it captures perfectly the ennui of Bob Harris (Bill Murray),…