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Drive My Car

2021 · Drama · Ryusuke Hamaguchi · 2h 59m

A stage actor takes a job in Hiroshima directing a Chekhov play, and the theatre assigns him a young woman to drive him there and back each day. Three hours, mostly conversation, much of it in the car.

  • Strongly slow
  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly character-driven
  • Strongly intimate
  • Clearly heavy

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