Title:
Man push cart
Author:
Credits:
a film by Ramin Bahrani.
Publication Date(s):
2021
Format:
DVD
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Series:
Criterion collection
Series SCL:
General Note:
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.
Performer:
Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval, Ali Reza, Farooq 'Duke' Muhammad, Panicker Upendran.
Description:
The experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad 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.
Reading Level:
Not rated.
Added Corporate Author:
Document ID:
SD_ILS:1673020
Language:
English
