Chop Shop [Criterion] (BLU)
Ramin Bahrani
Synopsis
For 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.
Product Details
- Format: Color, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: The Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 02/23/2021
- Catalogue #: 3224