Man push cart / a film by Ramin Bahrani ; producers, Ramin Bahrani, Pradip Ghosh, Bedford T. Bentley III ; written, directed and edited by Ramin Bahrani ; a Noruz Films production of a Films Philos release.
Edition:
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 x 71 cm folded to 17 x 12 cm)
Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval, Ali Reza, Farooq 'Duke' Muhammad, Panicker Upendran. Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Wide screen (1.78:1). Special features: audio commentary from 2005 featuring Bahrani, director of photography Michael Simmonds, assistant director Nicholas Elliott, and actor Ahmad Razvi; new conversation among Bahrani, Elliott and Razvi on the making of the film; new conversation between Bahrani and scholar Hamid Dabashi on the origins of the film and Bahrani's cinematic influences; Backgammon, a 1998 short film by Bahrani; trailer; plus: an essay by critic Bilge Ebiri.
Summary:
"A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi, elements of whose own life story were woven into the script) was a famous rock star. Now a widower separated from his son and adrift in New York, he works long hours selling coffee and bagels from a Midtown Manhattan food cart, engaged in a Sisyphean search for human connection and a sense of purpose that seems perpetually just out of reach. A rare immigrant's-eye view of a post-9/11 city suffused with subtle paranoia and xenophobia, Man Push Cart gives at once empathetic and clear-eyed expression to the everyday dream of human endurance"--Container
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