After all the awards and nominations that this movie has got, I had great expectations for Drive My Car. Such a disappointment! This movie is pretentious and boring, filled with unnecessary graphic sex scenes and annoying characters. What was that? We were 10 people in the cinema yesterday (in Madrid, Spain) and three left in the middle. I almost left, but I have never ever left in the middle of a movie because I always think that the movie will get better, but it didn't. I love slow movies (Bergman is one of my favorite directors) and I love long movies (I love David Lean's Doctor Zhivago and Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), but this was too much because the movie feels empty and pretentious.
All the characters (with the exception of the one who plays Sonya in the play) are unsympathetic, so it's very difficult to feel for them. The parts from Chekhov's play are brilliant (but that's Chekhov, not Murakami and not Hamaguchi). Drive My Car is an Ode to theatre (bravo), to sex (meh) and to infidelity (ew!).
I cannot believe that this movie has got 4 Oscar nominations and masterpieces like El buen patrón (The Good Boss) didn't get nominated. That says a lot about the decline and the want-to-be artistic of the Oscars.
I give 1 point for Chekhov, 1 for the Japanese landscapes and 1 for the character who plays Sonya in the play. And I would like my money and my 3 hours back. 3/10.
All the characters (with the exception of the one who plays Sonya in the play) are unsympathetic, so it's very difficult to feel for them. The parts from Chekhov's play are brilliant (but that's Chekhov, not Murakami and not Hamaguchi). Drive My Car is an Ode to theatre (bravo), to sex (meh) and to infidelity (ew!).
I cannot believe that this movie has got 4 Oscar nominations and masterpieces like El buen patrón (The Good Boss) didn't get nominated. That says a lot about the decline and the want-to-be artistic of the Oscars.
I give 1 point for Chekhov, 1 for the Japanese landscapes and 1 for the character who plays Sonya in the play. And I would like my money and my 3 hours back. 3/10.