Hit the Road (2021)
(Jaddeh Khaki)
Country: IRAN
Technical: col 93m
Director: Panah Panahi
Cast: Pantea Panahiha, Hasan Majuni, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar
Synopsis:
An SUV transports a volatile group consisting of anxious mother, father with leg in plaster, edgy elder son (driving), hyperactive kid brother and sickening puppy dog. They seem to be on their way from Tehran to some distant destination, but this is no ordinary family outing.
Review:
What might have been a tense, overwrought journey against time, or a spare, allusive character study in other hands is instead a wrily humorous, touchingly honest road movie. This heterogeneous family group grows on us by stages as, bickeringly shambolic and incident prone, they nevertheless lay everything on the line for each other. The presentation assumes the same quirkiness, overlaying Bach, Schubert and Iranian pop songs, and even permitting itself a Kiarostami moment at the handover, though the Zoroastrian journey from campfire to the stars might be one magic realist touch too many!
(Jaddeh Khaki)
Country: IRAN
Technical: col 93m
Director: Panah Panahi
Cast: Pantea Panahiha, Hasan Majuni, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar
Synopsis:
An SUV transports a volatile group consisting of anxious mother, father with leg in plaster, edgy elder son (driving), hyperactive kid brother and sickening puppy dog. They seem to be on their way from Tehran to some distant destination, but this is no ordinary family outing.
Review:
What might have been a tense, overwrought journey against time, or a spare, allusive character study in other hands is instead a wrily humorous, touchingly honest road movie. This heterogeneous family group grows on us by stages as, bickeringly shambolic and incident prone, they nevertheless lay everything on the line for each other. The presentation assumes the same quirkiness, overlaying Bach, Schubert and Iranian pop songs, and even permitting itself a Kiarostami moment at the handover, though the Zoroastrian journey from campfire to the stars might be one magic realist touch too many!
(Jaddeh Khaki)
Country: IRAN
Technical: col 93m
Director: Panah Panahi
Cast: Pantea Panahiha, Hasan Majuni, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar
Synopsis:
An SUV transports a volatile group consisting of anxious mother, father with leg in plaster, edgy elder son (driving), hyperactive kid brother and sickening puppy dog. They seem to be on their way from Tehran to some distant destination, but this is no ordinary family outing.
Review:
What might have been a tense, overwrought journey against time, or a spare, allusive character study in other hands is instead a wrily humorous, touchingly honest road movie. This heterogeneous family group grows on us by stages as, bickeringly shambolic and incident prone, they nevertheless lay everything on the line for each other. The presentation assumes the same quirkiness, overlaying Bach, Schubert and Iranian pop songs, and even permitting itself a Kiarostami moment at the handover, though the Zoroastrian journey from campfire to the stars might be one magic realist touch too many!