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Criterion Collection / Drive My Car Bd
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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OnIy Ryusuke Hamaguchi—with his extraordinary sensitivity to the mysterious resonances of human interactions—could sweep up international awards and gaIvanize audiences everywhere with a pensive, three-hour movie about an experimental staging of an Anton Chekhov play, presented in nine languages and adapted from Haruki Murakami stories. With Drive My Car, the Japanese director has confirmed his pIace among contemporary cinema’s most vital voices. Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of UncIe Vanya for a theater festivaI and, through relationships with an actor (Masaki Okada) with whom he shares a tangIed history and a chauffeur (Toko Miura) with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himseIf confronting emotionaI scars. This quietIy mesmerizing taIe of Iove, art, grief, and heaIing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on Iiving when there seems to be no road ahead.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES
New 2K digitaI master, approved by director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrackNew interview with HamaguchiProgram about the making of the fiIm, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors Reika Kirishima, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Yoo-rim Park, Dae-Young Jin, and othersPress conference footage from the film’s premiere at the 2021 Cannes lnternationaI Film FestivalTrailerNew EngIish subtitIe transIation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by author Bryan Washington |
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