Drive My Car (NC) [Academy Award Nominee]

179 minutes - Japan 2021 - Subtitles - Dir: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura and Reika Kirishima
 
Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku, a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theatre festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari, a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. As the production’s premiere approaches, tensions mount amongst the cast and crew, not least between Yusuke and Koji Takatsuki, a handsome TV star who shares an unwelcome connection to Yusuke’s late wife. Forced to confront painful truths raised from his past, Yusuke begins, with the help of his driver, to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind.
 
Drive My Car is a haunting road movie travelling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace.
 
Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture, International Feature, Director and Adapted Screenplay.
 
“A rich and wonderfully soothing work, a film that only further confirms Hamaguchi as one of the finest directors working today” The Film Stage