Chop Shop Bd, Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray
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$5 - $10, Ahmad Razvi, Alejandro Polanco, Bahareh Azimi, Carlos Zapata, Criterion Collection, Drama, Isamar Gonzales, Jeb Brody, Lisa Muskat, M.L.O., Marc Turtletaub, Movies, Movies & TV › Movies, Over $10, Ramin Bahrani, Rob Sowulski, The Criterion Collection, Under $5For his acclaimed follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a slice of New York City rarely seen on-screen: Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being redeveloped off the map. It's within this precarious ecosystem that twelve-year-old Ale (Alejandro Polanco) must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for himself and his sister (Isamar Gonzales) even as their tenuous circumstances force each to compete with other struggling people and make desperate decisions. A deeply human story of a fierce but fragile sibling bond being tested by hardscrabble reality, Chop Shop tempers it's sobering authenticity with flights of lyricism and hope.
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