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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Chop Shop</title>
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		<title>CHOP SHOP: Q&amp;A with Ramin Bahrani</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 21:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Ramin Bahrani&#8217;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 &#34;the major revelation of the Cannes Film Festival&#8217;s Director&#8217;s Fortnight,&#34; while John Anderson remarked in The Washington Post that Bahrani &#34;has created a not-to-miss gem for the discriminating viewer.&#34;
The story of a 12-year-old boy struggling to &#34;make dreams happen&#34; for himself and for his adolescent sister, Chop Shop is part &#34;neo-neorealist&#34; 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 [...]]]></description>
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