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Hit the Road (12a)

Dir: Panah Panahi | Iran | 2021 | 94 mins | Subtitled 
Cast | Hassan Madjooni, Pantea Panahiha, Rayan Sarlak

This is a Persian language film and will be subtitled.

All aboard for a joyful, mournful, chaotic and entirely irresistible family road trip in Hit the Road, the triumphant first feature from Panah Panahi (son of celebrated Iranian New Wave filmmaker Jafar Panahi). Dad (Hassan Madjooni) sits in the back with an ostensibly broken leg, while Mom (Pantea Panahiha) drives and tries to laugh (when she’s not holding back tears). An energetic youngster (Rayan Sarlak) keeps exploding into song. All are fussing over their sick dog and getting on each others’ nerves; only the mysterious older brother (Amin Simiar) is quiet. It’s clear they’re on an unusual trip, traversing a ruggedly beautiful landscape – but where are they going? Accelerating and slowing the pace at a moment’s notice, Hit the Road is expertly crafted, melding hilarity and quiet devastation and deeply immersing you into the lives and conflicting emotions of its family on the road. Aided immeasurably by a now sunny, now melancholy and always evocative Iranian pop soundtrack, it’s a spare, wry but also profoundly affecting story that pulls you in. 

“Funny, tragic, moving and a near-perfect debut movie" Rolling Stone

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