![]() The adaptation was co-written – with Takamasa Oe – and directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who released another critically well-received film in 2021, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, alongside Drive My Car. It’s filled with the beauty of the human spirit.īased on a short story from author Haruki Murakami’s 2014 collection Men Without Women, Drive My Car is a sprawling, contemplative study of grief and resilience. The film is a meditation on finding human connection in the hardest circumstances. Unlike the bleak worldview of Uncle Vanya, though, which works brilliantly as a text-within-the-text to comment upon and enhance the story in Drive My Car, the characters do more than simply endure. The characters in Drive My Car are enduring their own sorrow. “You must endure your sorrow,” Sonya, the niece of the titular character, tells her uncle in Anton Chekhov’s moving play, Uncle Vanya. ![]()
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