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Isabel Coixet’s slice-of-life comedy/drama Learning to Drive stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a middle-ages book critic who is shattered when her husband Ted (Jake Weber) leaves her. In order to visit her daughter (Grace Gummer), who lives upstate, Wendy begins taking driving lessons from Darwan (Ben Kingsley) an American citizen originally from India who makes a living as a cabbie and giving driving lessons. The two strike-up a friendship that helps her learn to take control of her life, and him adjust to his new life after an arranged marriage.

Learning to Drive screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, and won first runner-up audience award (out of a field of 300 films).

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“It’s a beautifully acted tale of friendship, and about how sometimes, you just need to move forward – in a car, or otherwise.”
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

“As this movie, directed by Isabel Coixet, tracks the deepening friendship between people from different cultures and backgrounds, it acquires an unforced metaphorical resonance.”
Stephen Holden,New York Times

“Endearing, mordant, and impeccably acted.”
— Peter Keough,Boston Globe