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...
“Drive My Car” never feels like an overextension of its delicate material. Instead, it pursues a kind of cinematic stillness to match Murakami’s plain, serene prose, and takes things suitably slow — this is the kind of film where the opening credits arrive 40 minutes in — as it ...
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...
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...
Drive My CarHits the Road to Cathartic Enlightenment Revered actor and director Yûsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) has been hired to headline a production ofUncle Vanyaat a theater festival in Hiroshima. It has been two years since the unexpected death of his wife Oto (Reika Kirishima), and...
Drive My Car begins with a long prologue that could be a film unto itself. When the opening credits finally roll forty-five minutes in, we’re already emotionally enraptured, and the story is just getting started. Takatsuki was cast by Oto in a television show, and now he seeks out a ...
Drive My Car (C) Bitters End, C&I Entertainment, Culture Entertainment, Drive My Car Production Committee What made the film absolutely beautiful for me was the use of four different languages to convey the story. A visionary creative, Yûsuke stages hisUncle Vanyain a multi-lingual format, ...
“Drive My Car” racked up several wins from the National Society of Film Critics January 8, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor. As “Drive My Car” won Best Picture, the organization’s rules determined that there would not be a separate Best Foreign-Lan...
Drive My Car: Regia di Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Con Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masaki Okada. Un famoso attore e regista teatrale deve imparare a far fronte a una grande perdita personale quando riceve un'offerta per dirigere una pr
Rachel Wagner Rachel's Reviews (YouTube) A violent yet stylish film that is very well made Full Review | Jun 29, 2020 Yasser Medina Cinefilia In 'Drive', a film directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, we find an ingenious mix of the best of road cinema from the 70s and...