The Iranian filmmaker Panah Panahi’s début feature, “Hit the Road,” is a love story, a tragicomedy, and a triumph, tnyfrontrow writes.
Mixed emotions reach a peak of political intensity in “Hit the Road,” the Iranian director Panah Panahi’s first feature, and a great one. There’s no way to make any sense of the film without giving away a detail that remains undisclosed until midway through; any substantive discussion of the film entails spoilers. What’s more, the drama depends on this cagey silence, its emotional price, and its political motive. The movie involves a family of four on a road trip in an S.U.V.
The spoilers begin here: the family, as it turns out, is heading toward the border so that Farid can be smuggled out ofand start a new life in another country. The motive isn’t clear, but he’s of age to do his two years of mandatory military service, and no Iranian man can apply for a passport without having fulfilled it. A trafficker has arranged the intricately plotted exfiltration at a shockingly high price: the family’s home and car.
The family relationships are depicted through a torrential blend of jovial ribaldry and vulnerable confession, with doubts muttered alone and misgivings kept silent—not least because of the young boy, who’s one of the most irrepressible and exuberant wild cards in the recent cinema.
Though “Hit the Road” is the first feature by Panahi, who was born in 1984, it’s merely the first flowering of a life in the cinema: he’s the son of the director
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