Saturday 5 February 2022

DRIVE MY CAR (DORAIBU MAI KÂ) (full review at Screen Realm)

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a thoughtful and enigmatic character drama, based on a short story by celebrated author Haruki Murakami.

Yûsuke (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is a successful theatre director, married to TV executive Oto (Reika Kirishima), they share a complex, creative relationship together. One afternoon Yûsuke returns home unexpectedly and discovers Oto having an affair with a young actor, Kōji (Masaki Okada), but he does not say word.

Yûsuke loves to drive his car, a red Saab, and run lines on his way to work. Oto records scenes onto cassette for him to play against. It is during one of these rehearsals when Yûsuke is involved in a small accident. Although unharmed, at the hospital Yûsuke learns he has glaucoma and will lose his sight in one eye. Not long after the crash a tragic event disrupts their life forever.

Read the full review at Screen Realm:

https://www.screenrealm.com/drive-my-car-movie-review/

IMDB: Drive My Car

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