Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Japanese drama Drive My Car has won the Fipresci Grand Prix for best film of 2022, awarded by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics.Drive My Car premiered in Cannes last year, where it won best screenplay honors as well as the Cannes Fipresci prize...
What’s crazy is that, even at three hours in length, the narrative isn’t any more complex than what I’ve outlined in that brief synopsis. It is what happens between the moments that Yûsuke and Misaki climb inside the vehicle where the fireworks are lit, and even they are metaphorica...
There’s a brief transition early in the three hours of Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s astonishing “Drive My Car” where the wheels of the movie’s integral automobile morph into the spinning reels of a cassette tape in a recorder. For an instant, they fuse, almost as if the vo...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car was awarded best feature at this year’s Asian Film Awards (March 12), along with prizes for best editing and best original music. The multiple award-winning Japanese film premiered at Cannes film festival in 2021 and also won the Oscar for Best Internationa...
Drive My Car The Bottom Line A rambling but ultimately rewarding ride. Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Competition) Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Toko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Park Yurim , Jin Daeyeon Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi Screenwriters: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe, based on Driv...
Drive My Car 5.0 out of 5.0 stars CAUTION: Here be spoilers Drive My Caris a mesmerising film that stays with you long afterwards. Its rhythm and pace enfolds the viewer: by the end you see how necessary and fitting that three-hour journey was and how much it encompassed. ...
Only weeks agoDrive My Carwould have been considered the best film you’ve never heard of. Now, with a deserving Best Picture Oscar nomination to its name, it’s hopeful that the same enthusiasm and appreciation that droveParasiteto glory two years ago can be transferred to this foreign-lang...
Best Film“Drive My Car” by Hamaguchi Ryusuke (Japan) Best DirectorKore-eda Hirokazu for “Broker” (Korea) Best ActressTang Wei for “Decision to Leave” (Korea) Best ActorTony Leung Chiu Wai for “Where the Wind Blows” (Hong Kong) ...
film, from his unwavering camera that allows his actors space to fully explore their characters, to his fascinating multinational take onUncle Vanya, and his superb pacing that keeps the story moving better than most films half its length. While it’s a Japanese film, its i...
In my opinion, the movie could have cut out 30mins, but the length is used as a storytelling device as well and the movie takes its time to flash out its characters to make them 3-dimensional, which works very well for most of them.For a movie that has no less than 7 languages in...