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This is a very odd movie: we as the audience have to do all the work!Is there a plot? No. You have to imagine it. Is there a script? No: you have to imagine that, too.I spent the entire movie waiting for something to happen. Nothing ever did!OK, it was a very pleasant wait: the scenery is very attractive, and most of it is scantily-clad. So if you like looking at women in a state of undress (I do!) then you will at least have something to do while you imagine a story to go with the visuals.There is one stand-out: the sound. Many of the scenes are shot with ambient sound, and it is beautifully captured. As a former sound man myself, I know how hard this would have been to do.Everything else: that's up to your imagination!

Awful. Yep, that says it perfectly. The movie begins with a car driving around in a circle in the desert, or I should say a car driving around in a whole lot of circles. Right then I knew the movie was going to be awful. I believe the films runs 132 minutes and should have been 45 minutes long. Then there are at least two scenes of strippers grinding on a pole, both lasting a couple of minutes. Why the director felt viewers needed this bit of entertainment is something I'm not capable of understanding. Somewhere is about as bad as movie making gets. There is almost nothing in the way of story telling and Coppola feels that just showing the life of a Hollywood turd is enough to entertain her audience. I hope they take her movie-making privileges away permanently and give them to some deserving artist.

2 stars for this movie, one for Stephen Dorff, other for Elle Fanning (great acting).I really don't know what school of movie-making Coppola followed, this is simply boring cinema.Same formula as in Lost in Translation, yet this fails to compete with that mediocre title. Famous guy is fed up with a shallow life, stays a while with his neglected daughter, traveling abroad and realizes how empty his life is....A simple story deserves a stronger movie to hold on its own... movie lacks direction, momentum and dynamism to capture the audience attention.Leaving a camera just hanging there in boring scenes just doesn't work... at least choose the right angles and try to capture the whole scene (stripper's scene hint hint) Watch a few Hitchcock movies Sophia... learn how a master used just one camera, one apartment and made a jewel out of a simple story ("the Rope") Next