"Drive My Car."

Complex, long, layered and reserved -- how directing a movie based on the work of a famous author changes meaning, creating something new and ethereal. But does culture infuse how we view it?

There’s a lot to unpack in “Drive My Car” and it’s not my goal here to get to everything, but to get to some of the elements that stood out or were brilliantly evocative in their reserve, or — and I’m just using my own reaction here — how it was to perceive a movie based on its cultural representation and not a kind of universality of emotion. That’s on…