Drive My Car breaks record in Portugal
Acclaimed in the last edition of the Oscars, Drive My Car – Drive My Car blocked an important record in Portugal.
after a exclusive premiere at Filmin Portugal on June 9, a streaming platform revealed that “Drive My Car” biggest ever, when in its greatest success register the number of views of the streaming platform.
“Drive My Car” continues to be unstoppable and will make history in 2022. His acclaim began at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, where he competed for the Palme d’Or, the Official Selection in Competition and where he came away with the Best Screenplay award, FIPRESCI award and the award of the Ecumenical Jury. Followed by the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs and the victory at the Academy Awards, in the category of Best International Film. But what makesDrive My Car” an iconic film? According to the Portuguese distributor, Leopardo Filmes:
First of all, the quality of his writing, his perspicacity and intuition, which we feel when we look at the characters we build, whole, body and word with an aura of mystery; or in the form Hamaguchi records the intimate (Mathieu Macheret speaks of “scenography of affectivity”) and basic issues such as love, loss, loneliness, memory. And in Drive My Car, where the main character is an actor and director, staging O Tio Vânia de Chekhov theater festival in Hiroshima, as guests and the character between theater and life, between inside and outside the stage. At one point, the director Kafuku, in conversation with the actor in the play Takatsuki, tells him: “Chekhov is terrifying. When we say his lines, the text rips us out of our ‘I’. Don’t you feel it?” In this monumental and “luminous” film, art is the universal language that leads us to understand human nature. (Leopard Films).
“Drive My Car” was equally acclaimed by international critics and also by Portuguese critics. Cláudio Alves, during the national premiere of the Japanese drama at LEFFEST 2021, wrote in his review:
The smallest astronomical personal things of significance and it is the single movement that tells us the most about each person. The smoking of silence becomes a special and symbolic action, evidencing the growing rapprochement between the artist and his conductor. Like each person his grievances with his partner, tobacco and cigarettes are also part of communion. The most moving image of the tape thus appears as a simple shot of hands raised across the roof. Lit cigarettes are held in their fingers, plumes of smoke drawn by the night wind. It is an almost religious, perhaps ritualistic vision that emulates the funereal incense seen in the first chapter of “Drive My Car”.
You can watch “Drive My Car” on FILMIN Portugal. The film is also available for rent for those without a subscription.