Lost Girls and Love Hotels (Alexandra Daddario, Carice van Houten)

[Canada]

Source: Hollywood Reporter

WME Global is handling worldwide sales for the Tokyo-set thriller from Swedish director William Olsson.

Dutch actress Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones) has joined the cast of the Tokyo-set thriller I Am Not a Bird.

Swedish director William Olsson (Reliance) is directing the feature, an adaptation of Catherine Hanrahan’s acclaimed debut novel Lost Girls and Love Hotels. Hanrahan adapted her own book for the screenplay.

In the pic, Alexandra Daddario (San Andreas) stars as Margaret, a young Western woman losing herself in the bacchanal of nighttime Tokyo. Van Houten plays her older friend Ines, a woman who realizes her youthful modeling and partying years in Tokyo are now behind her and is trying to go home.

Filling out the cast are Andrew Rothney, Kate Easton, Takehiro Hira and newcomer Elisabeth Larena. Lauren Mann of Wandering Trail Pictures and Lawrence Inglee of Blackbird are producing the pic. I Am Not a Bird began shooting this week on location in Tokyo.

[Canada]

Lost Girls and Love Hotels

[Himmel]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DJizFdwMmzE

[Bolo Seagull]

Might give it a rent. At least from the trailer it looks like a somewhat unconventional narrative.

[Dr. Seymour Love]

Mr Skin has been talking about this movie forever, as early screenings had a ton of Daddario nudity in it.

[Canada]

Lost Girls and Love Hotels review

[CyberpunkCentral]

Tits or GTFO!

[MazeRunner]

Not a fan of how low budget it looks.

[KazzyChan25]

I rented it last night after reading the book about a week ago. The film doesn’t do a great job explaining anything at first. My husband watched it with me and I could follow everything cause I had just read the book; he was totally lost, not understanding why Margaret was a mess. I was also surprised how much it deviated from the book. There were so many details not touched on in the movie. For example, the book does a lot of flashbacks to her youth and family, thus really explaining why she’s such a mess. I think her family was mentioned once in the movie, briefly.

Anyways, I enjoyed it, even being different from the book. I love Tokyo, vacationed there twice and had my third trip cancelled by the pandemic - so it was good to revisit it in this movie. I’d recommend it. Interesting story.

[MDJ]

Originally Posted by Dr. Seymour Love

Mr Skin has been talking about this movie forever, as early screenings had a ton of Daddario nudity in it.

[prkchopexpress]

i’m not familiar with the source material.

from the title and the cover, you think it me be an erotic thriller but drenched in neon.... maybe looking like only god forgives. but it really reminds me more of last life in the universe.

more contemplative drama than erotic fantasy, but still worth checking out.

i guess the eleven year olds who listen to mr skin would be disappointed.

[Dr. Seymour Love]

Originally Posted by prkchopexpress

i’m not familiar with the source material.

from the title and the cover, you think it me be an erotic thriller but drenched in neon.... maybe looking like only god forgives. but it really reminds me more of last life in the universe.

more contemplative drama than erotic fantasy, but still worth checking out.

i guess the eleven year olds who listen to mr skin would be disappointed.

If only we could all grow up and be as pretentious as you...

[Bolo Seagull]

I want to read the book and see the movie, but unfortunately neither are available to me. It must be some distribution disagreement because the book is in Kobo's catalogue in USA, just not available to Canadian customers. And the movie isn't on Microsoft movies in Canada either.

Oh well, eventually...

[Bolo Seagull]

I gave this a rent, here are my thoughts.

The film is about a young woman trying to process her issues by numbing herself out in a world of booze and sex in a land far away. Daddario is surprisingly convincing as the troubled American woman in Tokyo trying to run away from herself. It's like something in between 'Into the Wild' and 'Nymphomaniac'.

Apparently it was significantly trimmed down in an effort to make it more palatable to mainstream audiences. Maybe they were hoping they could edit it into something more like 'Lost In Translation'? I dunno. It definitely felt like it could have been longer and gotten deeper into its characters or even explored its love hotel setting more than it did. It's barely over 90 minutes, and everything that is there is fine, but it feels like it takes the shortcut on some of the desperation it is trying to achieve.

Makes me want to read the book more.

[Dr. Seymour Love]

This available to watch on Hulu now.