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Hit the Road

Hit the Road Review | NYFF 2021

Hit the Road Review | NYFF 2021

Like father, like son; Panah Panahi’s Hit the Road creates a self-reflexive study on life in his country by means of a family road trip that has different twists and turns emotionally. On the first watch, it is gripping; on the second, it completely breaks your heart. The film follows a tender disordered family of four -- two middle-aged parents and their two sons: a hyperactive 6-year-old and an untalkative adult -- who drive across the Iranian landscape. We are never told what their exact destination is; they just keep on driving. Dad has a broken leg for an unknown…
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