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- 2020
- R
- GEM Entertainment
- 1 h 37 m
- 2020
- R
- GEM Entertainment
- 1 h 37 m
Summary Margaret (Alexandra Daddario) finds herself in the glittering labyrinth of Tokyo by night and as a respected english teacher of a Japanese flight attendant academy by day. With little life direction, Margaret searches for meaning with fellow ex-pats (Carice Van Houten) in a Japanese dive bar, drinking to remember to forget and losing her...
Directed By: William Olsson
Written By: Catherine Hanrahan
- 2020
- R
- GEM Entertainment
- 1 h 37 m
- 2020
- R
- GEM Entertainment
- 1 h 37 m
Lost Girls & Love Hotels
57
5.1
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Summary Margaret (Alexandra Daddario) finds herself in the glittering labyrinth of Tokyo by night and as a respected english teacher of a Japanese flight attendant academy by day. With little life direction, Margaret searches for meaning with fellow ex-pats (Carice Van Houten) in a Japanese dive bar, drinking to remember to forget and losing her...
Directed By: William Olsson
Written By: Catherine Hanrahan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
57
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
This is one of the better intimate dramas of the year.
It's a high point for everyone involved.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
5.1
27% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
45% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
27% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
5.1
27% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
45% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
27% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
An existentialist erotic thriller with a romantic whiff, but eroticism is purely narrartive and atmospheric with no open sexual scenes, meaning that sexual encounters that are boldly initated by the female heroine, are mostly indicated by the story and cut off or used for dialogue (yes, there are scenes with naked bodies and lovemaking, but very discreet with very little naked skin). And in the story, there is no real threat to the lead and no dynamic action in a sense of thriller genre, except for the existential angst of the "lost" heroine (lost girls from the title) and for the fact that at the end we realize that her lover is a yakuza, because we notice that his little finger was freshly cut. So people who expect hot action movie with dazzling female lead will be disappointed. And there is a bare minimum of a story, indicating a kind of existential emptiness of the alienated life of a disconnected foreigner in Tokyo's urban sprawl. But it's never-the-less a fine little movie with interesting acting by Alexandra Daddario who develops a kind of expressive charismatic presence in the movie without much talking that unexpectedly shows real acting talent. It seems that the movie was inspired by the films like In the mood for love and Lost in translation, although storywise far less articulated.
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Fifty Shades of Tokyo.
The movie itself isn't nearly as terrible as the one I mentioned, but being atmospheric in eroticism doesn't make you interesting either.
And is that when your story is about escaping your own demons through casual sex. You need a good narrative so that you can feel some kind of sympathy for the main character. Otherwise is just a shallow character jumping from bed to bed.
And sorely this movie fails because it feels hollow most of the time and also because the main actress; Alexandra Daddario, is unable to make it feel credible.
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If not for the performance of Daddario, Lost Girls & Love Hotels could have been a disaster.
Other films have told similar stories with greater power. Director William Olsson appears unwilling to fully commit to the darkness that a movie of this sort would need to embrace to be both ephemerally disturbing (which it is) and memorable (which it isn’t).
The film isn’t perfect, and there is a touch of orientalism about the obsessive-affair-with-Japanese-man trope (which surfaced also in Wash Westmoreland’s The Earthquake Bird in 2019). But there is also something well controlled in the movie as it maintains its cool, even pace and Alexandra Daddario’s performance as the vulnerable, secretive yet emotionally open Margaret is smart.
William Olsson’s film works as an atmospheric mood piece and sometime erotic drama. It’s less successful as a character study.
Lost Girls and Love Hotels is too vapid to work as a psychological drama, too silly to work as a passionate romance, and too tepid to work as a sexy guilty pleasure.
This is one of the worst Alexandra Daddario's movies Its so bad that you might skip or skim just to see what's next I am sure most viewer watch it just because Alex in it but what a waste I really can't believe how some actress's are accepting roles to get naked for some extra bucks without considering how that movie would reflect on their own resumé I feel sorry for her and her bad choice
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Production Company
Blackbird,
Wandering Trail Pictures
Release Date Sep 18, 2020
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
Tagline It's yours, it's you.
