Chop Shop (Criterion Collection)
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- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 23, 2021
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales & Rob Sowulski | |
Performer: | Carlos Zapata & Ahmad Razvi | |
Directed by | Ramin Bahrani | |
Screenwriting by | Ramin Bahrani & Bahareh Azimi | |
Produced by | Lisa Muskat, Marc Turtletaub & Jeb Brody | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Simmonds |
Entertainment Reviews:
96%
TOMATOMETER
Alejandro Polanco and Isamar Gonzales seem to live their roles, in a masterpiece that intimately knows its world, its people and their survival tactics.
Chicago Sun-Times
[P]erceptive indie filmmaker Ramin Bahrani looks at what other overlook and finds drama in everyday details. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Bahrani's urge to show the ugly facts of America's working poor is commendable, and he gets full marks for his willingness to look beyond mainstream America's cinematic obsession with the well-heeled.
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Set in Willet's Point, an industrial sprawl of auto repair shops and junkyards in outer New York City, CHOP SHOP tells the story of 12-year-old Alejandro (Alejandro Polanco), an orphan living a hardscrabble existence in the "Iron Triangle." The boy earns a meager living hustling customers into body shops, hawking candy on the subway, and helping to chop up the parts of stolen cars. But he dreams of a better life. When his older sister Isamar (Isamar Gonzales) comes to live with him, Alejandro devises a plan to escape their desperate situation: they'll buy a lunch truck that they can run together. Alejandro begins stashing money, and even indulges in criminal activity to achieve his goal. When he learns a devastating secret about his sister, it makes him more determined than ever to change things. But reality proves a difficult opponent in his struggle for the American dream.
Full of naturalistic performances and exquisite handheld photography, CHOP SHOP shows a side of New York that is rarely seen in films about the Big Apple. Its characters, mostly immigrants, inhabit a landscape of rubbish-strewn alleys, deafening expressways, and rusted steel. Manhattan's skyscrapers and the stands of Shea Stadium loom forever on the horizon. Though some may find the film's unsparing depiction of poverty difficult to watch, the film is never hopeless, and the humanity of its characters always shines through. Altogether, it achieves an air of documentary-like authenticity that convinces the viewer that, long after the screen goes black, the lives of its characters will continue.
Full of naturalistic performances and exquisite handheld photography, CHOP SHOP shows a side of New York that is rarely seen in films about the Big Apple. Its characters, mostly immigrants, inhabit a landscape of rubbish-strewn alleys, deafening expressways, and rusted steel. Manhattan's skyscrapers and the stands of Shea Stadium loom forever on the horizon. Though some may find the film's unsparing depiction of poverty difficult to watch, the film is never hopeless, and the humanity of its characters always shines through. Altogether, it achieves an air of documentary-like authenticity that convinces the viewer that, long after the screen goes black, the lives of its characters will continue.
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