Three hour running time? Who has the patience for that, especially in this day and age? The answer: you! At least hopefully, because with a little perseverance, three hours goes from being a daunting length marker to being one unforgettable film experience. Are you up to it? Are you still thinking? Then let’s do a little persuasion.
At first glance, Drive My Car is another drama in which people just talk to each other a lot and for a long time. But that’s how good the film is was awarded an Oscar in 2022. Completely right. You can see for yourself where our enthusiasm and that of the Academy comes from in this article. Or just look at it yourself – in free stream the Arte media library.
Two moving life stories come together in the Oscar masterpiece Drive My Car
Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is an artist through and through. He lives the theater as a director and actor. His wife Oto (Reika Kirishima) felt the same way. As an author, she wrote plays herself – until two years ago, when Yusuke lost due to a stroke of fate. Now he pursues his job all alone.
This very job takes him to a festival where he is supposed to stage Anton Chekhov’s endlessly repeated play Uncle Vanya. He receives one for the duration of the assignment private chauffeur named Misaki (Toko Miura). She also struggles with her past.
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Toko Miura and Hidetoshi Nishijima in Drive My Car
As they drive together, the two begin to open up to each other and tell more about themselves. They unravel their experiences and Losses, their wishes and grief, separate regret from hope and take their first steps into a new future.
Drive My Car in the Arte media library is a lesson about life that more than deserves its Oscar
At the time, Drive My Car won the award for best screenplay in Cannes and was named best international film at the 2022 Oscars. No wonder, because Everything is just right with Drive My Car: A short story by the successful Japanese author Haruki Murakami served as a template. Burning director Ryusuke Hamaguchi is someone who knows exactly what makes people tick.
You see this again and again in Drive My Car. Hamaguchi lets his characters meet each other in the most sensitive way, knowing exactly when to speak and when to remain silent. The gravity and silence of loss, which can crush us, finds its place here, as do conversations that… intense, stirring, stimulating are.
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Drive My Car
Drive My Car shows in at all times captivating interactions, what constitutes human relationships. How painful they can be during your lifetime, but also after a loss – but also how livable and lovable they make life. And in the end we stand there having learned not only more about the characters, but ourselves.
You can currently experience this incredibly clever and worthwhile lesson about life completely free of charge in the stream in the Arte media library enjoy.