Arthouse Cinema: Drive My Car

OSCAR PREP WEEKEND: Inspired by a Haruki Murakami short story, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi spins an engrossing, rapturous epic about love and betrayal, grief and acceptance. With his characteristic emotional transparency, Hamaguchi charts the unexpected, complex relationships that theater actor-director Yûsuke Kafuku forges with a trio of people out of professional, physical, or psychological necessity. "Drive My Car"—a beautiful melding of two distinct authorial sensibilities—consistently steers clear of the familiar in its characters’ journeys towards self-examination. In Japanese with English subtitles. Tickets are $5 for SCAD card holders; $8 for students, military, and seniors;