Movie Time! Drive My Car (2021) and the Cinematic Allegory

It’s Popzara’s Movie Time! Podcast!, where our own movie nerds Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans discuss Drive My Car, the multilingual masterpiece from writer/director Ryusuke Hamaguchi that’s sorta-kinda based on Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same name.

A meditation about love and loss centered around an ambitious adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, what the film lacks in fidelity to the original text is more than made up for in reverence to what makes Murakami intrinsically Murakami.