A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.
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France Cannes Film Festival 
AustraliaPG Melbourne International Film Festival 
Czechia Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 
UK BFI London Film Festival 
South Korea Jeonju International Film Festival 
Indonesia Jakarta World Cinema Week 
Netherlands12 
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Hong KongIIA Netherlands12 Czechia 
Finland France 
Spain 
Turkey UK12A AustraliaPG 
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Switzerland12 FranceU AustraliaPG 
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give that kid a xanax
A family road trip movie in which we never quite know where the film is heading (and are often lied to about why), “Hit the Road” may be set amid the winding desert highways and gorgeous emerald valleys of northwestern Iran, but Panah Panahi’s miraculous debut is fueled by the growing suspicion that its characters have taken a major detour away from our mortal coil at some point along the way. “Where are we?” the gray-haired mom (Pantea Panahiha) asks into the camera upon waking up from a restless catnap inside the SUV in which so much of this film takes place. “We’re dead,” squeaks the youngest of her two sons (Rayan Sarlak) from the back seat, the six-year-old boy…
great galaxy road trip dog movie
brb gotta wrap myself in a tinfoil snuggie like a human baked potato until i become one with the cosmos
~ Seattle International Film Festival #5 ~
AFI 2021: film #7
“off we go”
“where to?”
“to hell”
chaos and comedy intertwine from the jump here but the heart lies with the relatably messy and tender family bond. so unexpectedly good
Beautifully tragic.
Also funny.
It's weird since a road trip movie is pretty much a staple in cinema but this manages to make (what can be a tricky balancing act) look effortless. It's funny, charming, achingly sad and did I mention beautiful?
There's a wide shot scene at the emotional apex of the movie and its... Well, beautifully tragic. Also a moment where the dad and boy are chatting and they just drift away together. You have to see it to understand (so get on that right away) but it feels poignant and creative and a tad silly and I loved it.
Road as intermediary, the buffer zone between territories that ensnare us. Where we begin and where we leave may hold nothing, no future and no past respectively, but for a brief little while we can be out of space and time: exactly where we need to be and exactly in the present. Escaping apprehension the car is always moving, always transitioning, always meeting new people and seeing new places. And for a brief little while we can be happy.
A Three-Part Analysis of Hit the Road: Aesthetic, Family, and Ideological Critique
Overview of the Film
"Don’t be scared."
A family of four and their sick dog embark on a road trip, that at first, is left unclear where exactly they are headed and why. It is gradually revealed that they are driving to a hidden location in the mountains, where they will be sending their eldest son to escape the country in search of freedom and better opportunities. To do so, the family has sold everything in their possession, including their home, to fund their son’s journey — with loose plans of getting things together once they ensure his safe passage through the mountains.
Part I: Aesthetic
There…
iranian little miss sunshine
new favourite road trip movie just dropped 😭
For a while, Hit the Road plays like Waiting for Godot on the road, as an Iranian family of four (and their ailing dog) embark on a vague, uncertain driving trip, engaging in teasing bouts of nonsense dialogue along the way. It’s meandering and oddly amusing—depending on your own mileage when it comes to precociously naughty child performances, which is what we get from Rayan Sarlak as the family’s terrorizing younger son. Eventually, though, it becomes clear that the older son (Amin Simiar) is being taken to the border by his parents (Hassan Madjooni and Pantea Panahiha) so he can surreptitiously escape the country. It’s a sad reality the family tries to belie with their tough humor, but one that…
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