IS was the film that snatched the victory from the hands of Paolo Sorrentino: Drive my car, the director Hamaguchi Ryusuke, was awarded yesterday the Golden Globe as best foreign film, beating It was the hand of God, a film presented by the Italian director already Oscar winner for The great beauty.
Taken from a short story by Haruki Murakami published in the 2015 book Men without women, Drive my car he was appointed “Best Film of 2021” from the National Society of Film Critics, which also awarded him as Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor.
And from tomorrow, 11 January, the Tucker Film the brings back to the cinema in the main Italian cities (Milan, Rome, Bologna, Genoa and Florence), just two days after his victory at the Golden Globes.
The plot of Drive my car
The film, which during the last Cannes Film Festival was also awarded the Best Screenplay Award, tells the story of Kafuku (the actor Nishijima Hidetoshi), a middle-aged man, cultured, elegant and refined, by profession an actor and theater director.
Man is at the mercy of pain because he cannot recover from the loss of Oto, Note playwright and its beautiful wife, which he loved above all else. To try to get distracted e mitigate that pain, two years after the loss of the woman agrees to direct Uncle Vanya – drama of Chekhov in four acts – for a well-known festival held in Hiroshima.
The two protagonists of “Drive my car”.
On that occasion Kafuku knows Misaki (the actress Tōko Miura), a taciturn young woman who has the task of acting as his friend driver and to drive its super Saab 900 flaming red.
His life takes an unexpected turn: overcoming each other’s barriers, Kafuku and Misaki will let emerge hidden secrets of their past e they will establish a more meaningful bond than they expected.
Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s words about Murakami
The Japanese director Hamaguchi Ryusuke he wanted to explain why he made a film based on Murakami’s story. “Why in Drive My Car the interactions between Kafuku and Misaki, the two main characters, occur inside a car“.
Director Hamaguchi Ryusuke at the Cannes Film Festival, where he won the award for best screenplay. (Handle)
And this “triggered my memories.” Certain conversations, the more “intimate ones, they can only be born within that enclosed space and in motion. A place, actually a non-place, which helps us to discover aspects of ourselves that have never been shown to anyone. Or thoughts that, before, we did not know how to express with words”.
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