Screening times
Friday, December 10, 7:00 PM - SOLD OUT - Half-capacity socially-distanced screening
Saturday, December 11, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity socially-distanced screening
Sunday, December 12, 1:30 PM - Half-capacity socially-distanced screening
Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan | 2021 | 179m | Japanese, Korean, English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog, Indonesian, German, Malaysian with English subtitles
with Yusuke Kafuka, Misaki Watari, Koshi Takatsuki, Oto Kafuku
Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), 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. Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace.
"Drive My Car sneaks up on you, lulling you in with visuals that are as straightforward as the narrative is complex.” NYT Critic's Pick -Manohla Dargis, New York Times
"Drive My Car devastates and comforts through its vehicular poetry of the sorrow from which we run, the collisions that awaken us, and the healing gained from every bump in the road." -Carlos Aguilar, RogerEbert.com
"Allow me to make a radical suggestion: The one film that demands to be seen on a big screen this year is a tiny little three-hour Japanese drama about grief, love and Chekhov.” Critic's Pick -Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail
Best Screenplay, FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize, Ecumenical Prize - 2021 Cannes Film Festival
Silver Hugo Jury Award, Best International Feature Audience Award - Chicago International Film Festival
Tickets $8.75 online ($8 at the door if available)
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