The film is a lively, lovely, lushly enveloping digitally animated musical fairy tale. The film adaptation pursues a kind of cinematic stillness to match Murakami’s plain, serene prose, and takes things suitably slow - this is the kind of film where the opening credits arrive 40 minutes in - as it ponders just how much time can heal all wounds. It’s a grief-stricken marriage story enfolded in a corrupted friendship study, related in turn via a separate tale of odd-couple companionship, all told in fewer than 40 pages. Haruki Murakami’s short story “Drive My Car” is a sleek, streamlined slip of a thing that nonetheless, in the author’s signature style, packs an awful lot into its lean sentences. 26 Exclusively in Theatersĭrive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) CRITIC’S PICK Find more movies and TV shows to stream here. Here’s a rundown of the films opening this week that Variety has covered, along with information on where you can watch them. Let Variety help you find that next well-earned bit of escapism, whether it’s the highly anticipated “ House of Gucci” or the timely Thanksgiving drama “ The Humans.”
Fall movie season is upon us - though the release schedule has never been more confusing, with some blockbusters heading directly to streaming, others in theaters only and various independent films mixing up strategies between theaters, streaming and VOD releases.