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The films of Japanese film director and screenwriter Ryusuke Hamaguchi lodge in your brain and heart like small incendiary devices, ticking from his self-awareness toward yours.
San Francisco State University professor Daniel Langton has called Frederick Pollack’s poems “necessary” because “do what poetry should do—grapple with the important.
In his new film Drive My Car, writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has fashioned a brilliant study of relationships and love, need and understanding. He rests his moral tale on two devices: a play within a play and the movement of a car carrying its owner and driver.
In his new film Drive My Car, writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has fashioned a brilliant study of relationships and love, need and understanding. He rests his moral tale on two devices: a play within a play and the movement of a car carrying its owner and driver.
Marianne is the smartest girl in the small West Ireland high school. She knows it. As a classmate acknowledges to her, “You’re smarter than me.” “Smarter than everyone,” Marianne shoots back. When a teacher scolds her for not paying attention, Marianne sharply knifes back at him: “Don’t hurt yourself. I’ve nothing to learn from you.” The entire class laughs, nervously.