![]() ![]() She shares this with Yusuke, but she’s far more unassuming than he is. This chauffeur, Misaki (Tôko Miura), runs from the guilt of a complicated past. Until he’s forced to accept a chauffeur as a condition of his residency. But, it’s just a car.Īnd drive it, Yusuke does. Intervening meditations on art and life invite, in the enormity of the film’s country-trotting, comparisons to a comet streaking through the stars. Yet, by the film’s end, resentment transforms into love and, if not forgiveness, then understanding. As the film continues, Hamaguchi synthesizes the subtleties of his story’s strands into a pressure cooker where Yusuke’s emotions simmer.Īt first, he’s angry that Oto betrayed him. That’s just one component of a film filled with layers of storytelling. Oto’s voice is still there, forever impressed on a tape she made of the dialogue of “Uncle Vanya.” He fills in the lines for his part as he drives his Saab. Two years after Oto’s death, Yusuke, a theater actor and director, takes off to a residency in Hiroshima. It’s a Hamaguchi hallmark to see the same value in silence as in spectacular dialogue - in the film’s titular car, there is either silence or speech, but always consistent contemplation. So, instead of cutting when Yusuke flops over to go to sleep, the film expands on the scene. “Sequence” is a generous term: Hamaguchi lets “Drive My Car,” based on the Haruki Murakami short story of the same name, cascade across its three-hour runtime without self-indulgence. Ryususke Hamaguchi, in his phenomenal second feature of this year, uses this sequence to convey a subtle sense that something is building. These details are relayed back to her by Yusuke, whose job is to recall the pieces Oto forgets the morning after. This time, it’s a bit outlandish: A girl breaks into the house of the boy with whom she’s smitten and deposits an unmissable sign that she was there - a tampon or her underwear - before she takes a small token for herself. In post-coital afterglow, Oto narrates the story of the screenplay that has been cooking in her head. Oto (Reika Kirishima) tells her husband, Yusuke (Hidetoshi Nishijima), about an idea for a new television script. “Drive My Car” begins in a late dusk glow. ![]()
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