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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

In her high-school graduation party in Sweden, the Belgian Angela (Chloé Winkel) meets the Japanese DJ Yamamoto (Jon Yang) and tells him that she does not like to study, but draw, and she would like to travel to seek adventures. Yamamoto tells her that he has a friend, Monika (Tuva Novotny) that works as hostess in a nightclub for men in Tokyo and gives her address to Angela. The heroin Angela travels and meets Monika, and gets a job escorting executives in the club. When she finds that the Russian girl Larissa (Peggy Jane de Schepper) is missing, Angela decides to investigate the mystery and discovers a murder case."Stratosphere Girl" is a very original and intriguing story, presented in a stylish cinematography of film-noir showing Tokyo at night. The plot is totally unpredictable, never uses clichés and has an unexpected twist in the quite open end. While watching the movie, I found apparent flaws in the story that are very well resolved with the conclusion, when the viewer finally sees that the whole plot was fabricated by the imaginative Angela while drawing a "manga" at home. Like in a dream, Angela tells that she is "a visitor in her own world" and the story has a happy end and, disclosing the subtle line between reality and the fantasy of her cartoon. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Traços de 1 Crime" ("Traces of 1 Crime")

When transitioning from the work week into the weekend or a short vacation, I like to watch a foreign film to transport my mind off into a different world. This movie about a European girl in Japan gave me a twofer, and filled the bill quite nicely. As a sci-fi, fantasy, and anime fan, I was intrigued by the title and subject, and was not disappointed.Chloé Winkel, in what's apparently her first feature film, plays angelic-looking Angela, a just-graduated (from high school) cartoonist who scurries off to Japan on the recommendation of Yamamoto (Jon Yang), whom she meets at her graduation party, and who gives her the name and address of a friend with whom she can stay.Once in Tokyo, Angela steps into a world of mystery, not just culturally, but also into one involving a missing bar girl. Entering the night club world herself provides Angela the opportunity to pursue the mystery; and her drawing what she "sees" blends imagination and reality into a mystery for the viewer.This film exhibits an unusual sense of continuity. Fueled by flashes between our heroine's drawings and actual live scenes (the multi-tiered inner-city roadways in Tokyo were particularly interesting to this never-been-there American), the tale is told not as a straightforward continuous sequence wherein one scene leads inevitably to the next, but rather as a series of apparently disconnected scenes which have the effect of making the action appear to occur over a longer period of time than it actually does, i.e., what seems like weeks in actuality are mere days.So what's real, what's imagination, what's flash-back or flash-forward? Suffice it to say that the ending, however "simplistic", breaks the wall between reality and fantasy, and resolves all mysteries for the viewer.

This film promised something but doesn't deliver. The story is simple enough, and quite watchable for the first hour of the film (apart from all of the shots of Tokyo highways used as cutaways), and then nothing. The ending is so juvenile. Was this written by a 12 year old, or did the film makers just run out of money and/or ideas? The storyline has the heroine of the film trying to track down a missing friend in Tokyo. She is constantly running into people that seem to know more than they are saying. The film seems to be building toward a showdown between our heroine and the bad guys and then... She finds her friend isn't dead and she is offered a job drawing cartoons for one of the bad guys. PLEASE!!!

I am not the biggest art movie fan in the world, but sometimes these films drift into areas that interest me and I check the out. I usually end up scratching my head in bewilderment. This also is a confusing but gorgeus film. I loved it from the opening scenes to its strange ending. The film progresses by a series of well thought out scenes, the visual contents of which are more important than either the action or the plot. It is the imagery that makes it so intriguing, I guess. Well, I suppose it's hard to explain without writing a whole essay, but I definitely suggest you to watch it, provided you have nothing against Tokyo, comics or blond girls. It should be seen on a large screen, it is breathtaking!