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One of the more anticipated films at the just completed Philadelphia Film Festival – and one of the better received titles judging from the buzz in theater lobbies – was The Stratosphere Girl, M.X. Oberg's stylish story of a Belgian girl traveling to Japan on a whim to work in a hostess bar. Oberg is undeniably gifted in the visual department and he has turned in a beautifully shot, carefully constructed thriller that plays on the whole ‘Lost in Translation’ cultural disconnection vibe as his aspiring manga-artist protagonist tries to unravel the mystery of a missing girl, exposing herself to Japan’s dirty sexual underbelly and no small amount of personal danger in the process. Having the story narrated by its main character while she is in the process of turning it into a manga is a nice touch and one that certainly suits the content and locale.The girl in question is Angela, an eighteen year old Belgian living in Germany who meets a Japanese DJ at her graduation party and, on the spur of the moment, decides to pursue her dream of traveling and seeing the world rather than staying home to work in an uncle's office when the DJ tells her of a friend he has working in a hostess bar. Telling no one where she's going, or why, Angela packs up and leaves in the middle of the night and, upon arrival in Japan, moves in with a group of hostess girls and commences work at their club. In the club her young looks make her a hit with the customers and a target for jealous retribution from the other girls who feel she is cutting into their clientele. As time passes Angela learns of a fellow worker who went missing sometime earlier and, from everyone's silence on the matter, decides that something suspicious is at work and sets out to learn the truth.
Though it does deal frankly with some of the seamier aspects of Japanese night life - a group of girls are put to work packaging used panties for sale to 'enthusiasts' at one point - the film is surprisingly non-exploitative, choosing to focus on the mystery aspect far more than the sex. Some plot elements fall together far too neatly and having a cast made almost entirely of non-native English speakers performing entirely in English makes for some slightly stilted and wooden dialogue, though not painfully so. Chloe Winkel is quite strong as Angela and Pink Panther fans will recognize Burt Kwouk as the manager of the hostess bar.
With this sort of a film the location and mood of the place is as much a character as any role the actors fill and Oberg has done a fantastic job of filling his Tokyo with a sense of beauty and mystery while having the audience get lost in these strange environs along with Angela. We experience the city as she experiences it: the lights, the noise, the seemingly bizarre logic that rules over it, the darker underground elements – we move from one environment to another as Angela does and experience her excitement, frustration, curiosity and fear as she does. The plot is secondary in this exercise, the point is to experience what Angela experiences – an experience Oberg based loosely on a story he claims he was told by a former hostess girl on an airplane.
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