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- In the summer of 2013 she started shooting Learning to Drive, an American production developed in New York City, based on an article published in The New York Times and starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson, with whom Isabel Coixet had already worked in Elegy.
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Learning to Drive is a 2014 American comedy drama film. Directed by Isabel Coixet and written by Sarah Kernochan based on a New Yorker article by Katha Pollitt, [2] the film stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a successful book critic [3] taking driving lessons with instructor Darwan (Ben Kingsley) after the breakup of her marriage to Ted (Jake ...
Learning to Drive: Directed by Isabel Coixet. With Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Jake Weber, Sarita Choudhury. As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with his own marriage troubles.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Isabel Coixet
- 2015-08-21
Sep 9, 2014 · At what point did you become involved with this project, and why were you attracted to it? Coixet: I shot Elegy with Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley in 2008, and Patricia started talking about Learning to Drive then. She gave me the script and I was blown away by it.
Sep 9, 2014 · Spanish director Isabel Coixet makes her first feel-good drama with Learning To Drive, about a recently divorced writer (Patricia Clarkson) who finds the strength to move on, physically and...
Aug 20, 2015 · Director Isabel Coixet (“Elegy”) and screenwriter Sarah Kernochan (“Nine and 1/2 Weeks”) talked with journalists in New York this week about their latest film, “Learning to Drive,” which stars Sir Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Sarita Choudhury, and Grace Gummer.
Aug 21, 2015 · Director Isabel Coixet reteams with her “Elegy” co-stars, placing them in areas of New York City rarely seen onscreen. The borough of Queens hasn’t had this loving a shout-out since “Coming to America”.
Directed by Isabel Coixet and written by Sarah Kernochan based on a New Yorker article by Katha Pollitt, the film stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a successful book critic taking driving lessons with instructor Darwan after the breakup of her marriage to Ted forces her to become more self-sufficient.
