'Columbus' Is Soulless, By Design
This stark, cerebral not-quite-romance is set in a city known for its spare modernist architecture, and that sense of severity pervades the film.
Imagine Lost In Translation set in a much sleepier metropolis than Tokyo. That's Columbus, which derives its title from its Indiana locale, a small city known for many buildings designed by notable modernist architects.
Like Sofia Coppola's movie, is a not-quite-romance between a middle-aged man and a woman who's barely out of high school. Pseudonymous Korean-American writer-director Kogonada even
