Learning to Drive with Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley was a gentle, funny movie. Instead of the usual ~ marriages falling apart, shunned partners find and fall for others ~ this movie ended differently. Although I have called it ‘gentle’ and ‘funny’, this does not mean a soft fuzzy movie. Wendy (Patricia Clarkson), a book critic, is a sudden divorceé after 21 years; Darwan, (Ben Kingsley), a cabbie/driving instructor, is to be married ~ an arranged marriage, consistent with his Sikh culture. Their lives are completely different, obviously not traveling in the same circles. That is, until Wendy decides that she needs to learn to drive. Fortuitously, they traveled in the same circle just long enough to meet. The story from that isolated crossing of paths and how it evolves into trust and caring. Laughter….yes. Tears…..maybe. It was a lovely movie for a Saturday afternoon ~ or any time.
“….read the signs.”
~ Darwan, Learning How to Drive.
Directed by Isabel Coixet
Patricia Clarkson - Wendy
Ben Kingsley - Darwan
Jake Weber - Ex-husband
Sarita Chowdhury - Jasleen
Grace Gummer - Tosha, Wendy's daughter
Samantha Bee - Wendy’s sister
Ben Kingsley - Darwan
Jake Weber - Ex-husband
Sarita Chowdhury - Jasleen
Grace Gummer - Tosha, Wendy's daughter
Samantha Bee - Wendy’s sister
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