Thompson on Hollywood: Spike Jonze Returns with a Vengeance with Tech Romance 'Her'

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Spike Jonze Returns with a Vengeance with Tech Romance 'Her' Oct 13th 2013, 03:09, by Anne Thompson Some of the best movies come from filmmakers on the rebound from a flop. After years of struggling to finish his labor of love, the idiosyncratic Maurice Sendak adaptation "Where the Wild Things Are," Spike Jonze has returned with a vengeance, for the first time writing as well as directing the story of a man on the rebound from a failed marriage. "Her" can be viewed as the flip side of Sofia Coppola's Oscar-winning movie about the end of their relationship, "Lost in Translation," a visual/aural tone poem that followed lonely, disconnected Scarlett Johannson around modern Tokyo, as she finds a soulmate with whom she can never truly mate. Jonze also puts Johannson front and center in this fractured future vision of a city, mostly shot in downtown Los Angeles. (This film reminds me of the way Jean-Luc Godard shot sci-fi film "Alphaville" in Paris, another movie with a computer voice at its center.) She plays sultry, brilliant OS 1 system Samantha, who "bonds" immediately... Media files: joaquin-phoenix-on-set-of-her.jpg (image/jpeg)

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