Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's rich and lonely adaptation of Haruki Murakami's short story, dazzles in desolation. nataliakeogan's NYFF59 review:
, Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s languorous adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same name. The film’s meticulous commitment to unhurried emotional introspection might appear to be an overindulgence when considering its three-hour runtime, yet Hamaguchi and co-writer Takamasa Oe gracefully unfurl Murakami’s original story into a melancholy meditation of pain and performance that remains ever-enthralling.
Renowned theater actor-turned-director Kafuku and his screenwriter wife Oto have what seems like a perfect relationship. Apart from sharing considerable marital bliss, they stimulate each other intellectually and sexually—oftentimes simultaneously. Oto will regularly weave narrative webs aloud while mid-coitus with Kafuku, reaching climaxes in literal and figurative senses.
In the short story, Kafuku is apprehensive to hire a woman driver due to his sexist preconception of the entire gender’s lack of mechanical finesse. In Hamaguchi’s adaptation, Kafuku brandishes no such sentiment—his sole reservation concerns the preservation of his beloved red Saab 900 , a vehicle perhaps made all the more precious due to fond memories of driving with his wife and poking fun at her poor form.
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