![]() ![]() It’s also the first non-English-language film from any country selected as Best Picture by all three major American critics groups. ![]() That awards attention marks another revealing contradiction: Despite Japan’s rich film history, including the filmmakers Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki, Drive My Car is the country’s most-nominated movie ever at the Oscars and its first to get the nod for Best Picture. Now streaming on HBO Max and competing at the Academy Awards, it’s finding wider audiences that can experience its magic for themselves. Together, these contradictions make Drive My Car an electrifying watch, but a difficult one to properly summarize. And it’s one of very few adaptations of the renowned Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s work, although the moments that best capture his style were invented by the director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. ![]() It’s a three-hour drama about grief, but the experience of watching it is breezily loose and oddly comforting. It’s a film about language, but its silences carry the most powerful moments of communication. ![]()
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