It’s one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful moments in recent movie history: Bill Murray walking backwards through a sea of distant strangers; Scarlett Johansson smiling back at him as the reverby opening drumbeat – borrowed from The Ronettes’ 1963 hit Be My Baby – to Jesus and the Mary Chain’s Just Like Honey kicks in. The song’s sentimental lyrics may hint at unrequited love, sexual frustration and even addiction (“Listen to the girl as she takes on half the world”, “Walking back to you is the hardest thing that I could do”), but in the context of Sofia Coppola’s melancholy second feature these words come to embody of Charlotte’s need to find her place in the world. Johansson’s character spends much of the film wandering around Tokyo without ever really going anywhere, longing for intimacy in a foreign land. The film’s bittersweet ending, in which Murray whispers something inaudible into Johansson’s ear before bidding her goodbye, shows that she has finally made a meaningful human connection.