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Title: Nothing to say disguised as art
Review: As someone who loved "Lost in Translation" for its ability to speak volumes with understated performances and economy of dialogue, "Somewhere" takes a similar approach but fails entirely. The characters are far less compelling, elements that might be construed as a narrative are threadbare at best and the movie, despite its lethargic pacing, quickly begins to feel like a self-indulgent exercise in examining the emptiness and monotony of an actor's life. This actor (the character, not Stephen Dorff), unfortunately for the film, isn't one who's interesting, gifted, articulate or insightful upon self-reflection. By about a third of the way in, this movie began to feel more like "Nowhere with Nothing To Say." This lame exercise disguised as minimalism signals that either the director has run out of inspiration or needs to get a taste of life outside of the self-absorbed self-fascination of Hollywood.
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