![]() ![]() Kafuku turns up to their house to find his wife dead after she promised she’d finally tell him a secret – not knowing that Kafuku has already walked in and seen her cheating on him. I love movies that take a considerable amount of time to set-up their opening title crawl (see Long Day’s Journey Into Night) and Drive My Car does that with it not kicking in until we’re forty minutes into the movie – it introduces us to an extended prologue where we focus on the waning relationship between Yusuke Kafuku, a theatre director, and his wife, a writer. A real discovery – Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s last film, Asako I & II, was one of the highlights of 2019 – but Drive My Car is next-level good, his best work thus so far and cements his status as one of the most exciting directors working in cinema right now – a meditative process on grief and the reflection of the memory of those that we lost, it explores finding the goodness in people whilst learning to accept their flaws. Adapted from a short story of Haruki Murakami and turned into an almost three hour feature, Drive My Car is the best movie of the year.
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