Drive Me Home

This is Simone Catania's debut feature...and one to be very proud of!

Take the well-driven road movie...locate it in multi-cultural Europe, forget about getting to the final destination [the point when the film usually ends] and rely - solely - on fond [often troubled] nostalgia, current turbulence and deep reconciliation. Drive Me Home is [as the title suggest] not about going...but, returning.

Two men, once boys, parted through no fault of their own...years later, reunite. Both have their demons, their grudges, their separate lives. Has time and distance made them irreconcilable?

Home is where the heart is...but, what if that home is being taken away from you? What if you have no 'home' to speak of? One lost soul is better than two!

Basically, this is a two-hander [with a few spicy characters to add to the flavour]. Antonio and Agostino are a dichotomy...but, are they the two parts of the same whole? The chemistry between the two is a brittle warmth. The feelings are there...expressing them is the challenge. Will they, won't they? Has too much water gushed under the bridge?

Simone Catania maintains a tight leash throughout...sometimes loosening...but, always reeling it back in. And, really...asks the question: Where does love go?

By the end of the film, you'll ask yourself that very same question...about all of your lost [or left] loves. Maybe a smile will appear, maybe a tear...this is a film that will give all that reminiscing a refreshing resonance...aaw.

So sweet. So fine. So human.

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