Man Push Cart2005
Both directed by Ramin Bahrani, both with commentary by Michael Simmonds and Ramin Bahrani, and both starring Ahmad Razvi
- Criterion Collection
- Spine №1067
- Commentary
- 1 track on the Channel player
Synopsis
For his acclaimed follow-up to MAN PUSH CART, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a slice of New York City rarely seen on-screen: Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being redeveloped off the map. It’s within this precarious ecosystem that twelve-year-old Ale (Alejandro Polanco) must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for himself and his sister (Isamar Gonzales), even as their tenuous circumstances force each to compete with other struggling people and make desperate decisions. A deeply human story of a fierce but fragile sibling bond being tested by hardscrabble reality, CHOP SHOP tempers its sobering authenticity with flights of lyricism and hope.
Commentary
All Commentators→1 streaming audio track
Commentary: Ramin Bahrani, Michael Simmonds, and Alejandro Polanco
