S.tasera absolutely cannot be missed Drive My Car (at 21.15 on Sky Cinema Due and streaming on Now), the award-winning Japanese film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi that he has conquered Cannesa Golden Globe, a BAFTA and also a Critics’ choice awards and that soon is preparing to run for the Oscars thanks to four nominations, including Best Picture (this is the first time this has happened to a title made in Japan).
Drive My Car it is intense road moviean intimate journey through the streets of Hiroshimabut above all in the solitudes of the two protagonists.
Drive My Car: the plot
The film is inspired by the collection of short stories Men without women by Murakami Haruki and tells the story of the actor and director Yûsuke (Hidetoshi Nishijima) e of his mourning process after losing his wife Oto (Reika Kirishima). Two years after the dramatic event Yûsuke agrees to relocate to Hiroshima to stage Uncle Vanya by Chekhov. Through the play, the relationship with the actors and above all with the 23-year-old girl who acts as his driver, Misaki (Tôko Miura), will succeed in rework the mourning: he will find a new way of looking at the world, those around him and his work.
Between one journey and another, from home to the theater and vice versa, Misakidriving a red Saab 900, begins to establish at a confidential report with the director. At first we are faced with long silences, then the words begin to fill in the gaps and the two to tell each other i respective past traumas.
Drive My Car: an intimate, emotional, cathartic journey
The film is intense, dense, intimate than through the word unmasks the psychology of the two characters. Unpredictably Yûsuke And Misaki they find themselves facing each other in the passenger compartment of a car that breathes man’s past.
And it’s right there that the past returns filling the silencesi: the two confide in each other i secrets and critical moments of their experience, open to listening and bring down internal barriers. Slowly, kilometer after kilometer, hour after hour (the film lasts 180 minutes), words heal the wounds of their lives or, at least, heal them. Yûsuke And Misaki after that meeting they will never be the same again.
Drive Me Car he is not afraid to dwell on the faces and above all on the inner traits of the protagonists. What matters to Murakami Haruki is to take us into that cockpit, dialogue with his characters and help us do it with ourselves too.
Hidetoshi Nishijima and Tôko Miura in Drive my car.
The many awards and the wait for the Oscar against Paolo Sorrentino
Drive My Car at the Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Screenplay. From that moment his lucky journey began. He has conquered a Golden Globe as Best Foreign Film, it also recently won the BAFTA beating ours Paolo Sorrentino, running with It was the hand of God.
Hamaguchi Ryusuke winner at Cannes 2021. EPA / ANDRE PAIN
The next appointment is for March 27 with the Oscar night. Drive My Car he certainly won’t go out empty-handed from the awards ceremony: it has in fact obtained four nominations as Best Foreign Language Film (he will have to deal with it again with Sorrentino), Best Screenplay, Best Direction And Best Film (this is the first time this has happened to a Japanese title). What if Drive My Car became the new Parasite? We wish him that.
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