POTSDAM — The Cinema 10 film series screens Drive My Car/Doraibu mai kâ, a 2021 film from Japan directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, on Monday Oct. 3 at 7:15 p.m. at the Roxy.

A moment of healing always comes when we least expect it.

Such is the case for Yusuke, a renowned stage director whose creative drive has suffered since his wife’s unexpected death two years ago.

But when he’s offered the chance to man the helm of a production of Uncle Vanya, Yusuke forms an unlikely friendship with his taciturn chauffeur, who shuttles him closer to the stage of acceptance.

Says the LA Times’ Justin Chang, “nearly every scene… teems with ideas about grief and betrayal… [and] the possibility (and impossibility) of catharsis through art.”

Drive My Car won the 2022 Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

The film is 179 minutes and is not rated.

It contains sexual and some potentially difficult thematic elements.