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    Drive My Car

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    Mysterious and beautiful

    THE GUARDIAN
    • Archive - Festival 37
    • Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
    • Japan 2021
    • 179 minutes
    • Japanese
    • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

    Ageing theatre director Yusuke is still grieving the loss of his wife two years earlier when he is asked to direct Uncle Vanya at a festival in Hiroshima. To get there, he needs someone to drive him and his red Saab 900 across the country. Misaki, a quiet twentysomething recommended by a friend, takes the wheel.

    Winner of the Best Screenplay Award, the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2021 Cannes Festvial, Drive My Car is adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami. The beautiful film is an enigmatically melancholy tale of human desire, loneliness and love and the courage to face the past.

    Filmography: Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021), Asako I & II (2018), Happy Hour (2015).

     

    Ryusuke Hamaguchi's previous film, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, is screened in the Festival's program as well.

    • Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi
    • Production Teruhisa Yamamoto
    • Script Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe, based on the story by Haruki Murakami
    • Cinematography Hidetoshi Shinomiya
    • Editing Azusa Yamazaki
    • Music Eiko Ishibashi
    • Festivals Cannes (Best Screenplay Award, FIPRESCI Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury), Toronto, Karlovy Vary
    • Actors Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Toko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Park Yurim
    • Source Lev Cinemas Ltd.