![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Loosely adapted from a 2014 short story by Haruki Murakami, Hamaguchi's melodrama focuses on renowned Tokyo theatre director Yūsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a melancholy 40-something whose screenwriter wife Oto (Reika Kirishima) is having an affair with her doll-faced TV star (Masaki Okada). Read: the full list of nominations for the 94th Academy Awards.In writer-filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's newly Oscar-nominated Drive My Car, a cherry-red 1987 Saab 900 Turbo is the latest, somewhat unlikely vessel for shared intimacy, gliding through the three-hour emotional epic. This has often been true in the movies, as cops bond during stake-outs and road-tripping passengers spill secrets where everything from a Jeep-bound conversation in a Kiarostami film to a high-speed Fast and the Furious bro-down takes on unexpected emotional grace. At a time when our connections with others are often mediated by algorithms and screens, taking a long ride in an automobile can feel like one of the few spaces left where we can share an honest, open moment with someone else. ![]()
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