The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation, ' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter, ' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'

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