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MAN PUSH CART
year 2005 lenght 87' color 35mm country USA-Iran
directed by Ramin Bahrani
Screenplay Ramin Bahrani
Cast Ahmad Razvi (Ahmad), Leticia Dolera (Noemi), Charles Daniel Sandoval (Mohammad), Ali Reza (Manish), Farooq “Duke” Mohammad (Duke)
Cinematography Micheal Simmonds
Art direction Charles Dafler
Editing Ramin Bahrani
Costume design Elena Kouvaros
Music Peyman Yazdanian
Producers Ramin Bahrani, Pradip Ghosh, Bedford Bentley III
Produzione
Noruz Films
World Sales
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synopsis
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant man drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York to his corner in Midtown Manhattan. And every morning, from inside his cart he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own.
He is the worker found on every street corner in every city.
He is a man who wonders if he will ever escape his fate.
Beautifully observed, this is a subtle and technically accomplished film. Whatever else is going on in the protagonist’s life, the film returns regularly to the act of him setting up his cart in the early morning; his preparations for opening and his exchanges with customers, as they buy coffees, teas and bagels from him. This gives Man Push Cart a deliberate rhythm, whilst it explores the complex and hidden depths of the character, who we learn is desperately hanging on to his small dreams in the midst of grief and despair. The denouement of the film is tragi-comic, heart rending and almost inevitable. His little glimpse of an escape from a circumscribed world has been closed down again and he has to pick himself up and focus on the same thing he started with. This is a haunting and inciteful second feature that gives an elliptical but nonetheless revealing picture of an under-depicted community in the Big Apple.
(Adrian Wootton)
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