![]() ![]() ![]() (Thankfully, that didn’t stop him from making unofficial movies without permits, like masterpieces “This Is Not A Film” and “Taxi.”) In that regard, it might very well be in a subconsciously protective spirit that his son Panah leaves story’s political facets obscure, knowing what buttons he can and cannot push, what he can and cannot spell out. Panahi guilty of spreading anti-government propaganda. Yes, Panah is the son of the legendary Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, who is still barred from filmmaking and departing Iran due to the regime’s enraging 2010 ruling that found J. In strictly speculative terms, the filmmaker’s choice to leave things unsaid might have something to do with the Panahi name. They are just in somewhat of a disorienting rush-as we find out in doses, the quartet is making a dash for the Turkish border to smuggle the older son out of the country for reasons Panahi smartly leaves mostly unexplained, a perceptive decision that propels the alluring aura of secrecy in “Hit the Road.” No, no one is dead amongst the family of four-also including Hassan Madjooni’s wisely deadpan Dad with a broken, painfully itchy leg in a cast and the pensive, twentysomething Big Brother, played by Amin Simiar. That being said, you may be forgiven to think that you’re in the presence of a mystic, spiritual or even supernatural “ Little Miss Sunshine” for a second there, one that is set on the road to the Pearly Gates.īut Panahi is also quick to gracefully steer you back into reality. And Panahi is so precise behind the camera that his inspired compositions of the family inside the car-somehow, both spacious and claustrophobic-as well as the languorous rays of sun that shoot their way into the confinement dreamily, don’t necessarily challenge the little one’s otherworldly remark, very much on purpose. Though when the kid first makes this intense quip, we aren’t quite acquainted with the rascal’s irresistibly witty ways yet, a disposition that often injects the picture with moments of comic relief that runs parallel to the movie’s melancholy. ![]()
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