Somewhere (2010)

How boring can the life of a famous Hollywood actor be? I think that is the question, after having watched this movie, Sofia Coppola has tried to answer. To immediately answer it: Obviously extremely boring. Did she manage to create an interesting film despite this fact?

The director of Lost in Translation (which I really loved and gave a 9), seems to try to recreate that formula for success again. In Lost in Translation we saw how to people, an actor (played by Bill Murray) and a young woman who just got married (Scarlett Johansson) spend their time in a strange place they don’t know much about. They hung out together and you could feel something going on between the two, there was a connection between the two where they weren’t sure what to do with it.

In Somewhere we see Johny Marco (Stephen Dorff), a successful actor who spends his days outside the set in a hotel where he is regularly visited by some pole dancing twins. He drives a Ferrari and has to leave the hotel regularly to do promotion for his films. When his ex suddenly can’t take care of his daughter (played by Elle Fanning) he has to change his ways.

During the whole movie I had the feeling that absolutely nothing was happening except for me wasting my time on this movie. Coppola has managed to make driving a Ferrari look boring. Johny Marco and his daughter do a lot of things, but it all seems without a purpose. I felt like just watching people doing ordinary stuff, without it generating feelings when watching it. I came to the conclusion that this film just doesn’t have a purpose, except to make the viewer as bored as the main character and the movie succeeded at that.

Somewhere really disappointed me and really felt like a waste of time. So it’s better to skip this film and watch Lost in Translation again or the movie I review tomorrow, Alamar, which is similar, but a lot better.

Score: 4