CHOP SHOP: Q&A with Ramin Bahrani

Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop, which opens today in Los Angeles, has received widespread praise since its premiere at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The French daily Le Monde called it "the major revelation of the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight," while John Anderson remarked in The Washington Post that Bahrani "has created a not-to-miss gem for the discriminating viewer."
The story of a 12-year-old boy struggling to "make dreams happen" for himself and for his adolescent sister, Chop Shop is part "neo-neorealist" cinema, part cinéma vérité, and part gritty social commentary à la Pixote or City of God (minus the blood and violence).
Parent-less Alejandro (Alejandro Polanco) works and lives in an auto body shop in Willets Creek, Queens, where he [...]

by Andre Soares | May 30, 2008   
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