Sonia Yuan and Park Yurim in a scene from "Drive my Car." Sideshow/Janus Films Despite the action verb "drive," the film has nothing to do with racing, except the protagonist, actor and stage director Yûsuke Kafuku (the brilliant Hidetoshi Nishijima), is racing from his past and ...
This review of “Drive My Car” was first published on July 11 after the film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Throughout his short career, Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has often used literary touches to track the passage of time. His 317-minute debut, “Happy Hour” sprawled...
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...
Haruki Murakami’s short story “Drive My Car,” included in his 2014 collectionMen Without Women, contains a whole world of grief and human connections in around 30 pages. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s screen adaptation hews close to the source material, though it could be accused of taking the scenic...
while other times you just get the urge to drive through a field of beautiful lavender just because you can. Regardless of whether or not I decide to drive off road on purpose, I still find myself thoroughly enjoying the experience, so long as my vehicle can handle the change in terrain...
That is the thing about Drive My Car. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has great collaborators, including his co-writer, Takamasa Oe, and he could not have made Drive My Car the achievement in cinema that it is without them. He could not have made a film in which some of its best scenes occu...
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“drive my car (misaki)” also begins with an automobile sound as the titular character opens the saab’s creaky front door and turns on the saab’s ignition. this interpretation of the theme incorporates tumbling piano notes, brushed drums, and the steady thump of an electric bass; that ...
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