A family goes on a road trip with a difference in Hit The Road, a promising first feature from Panah Panahi, which showed in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section.
The son of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a lean but affecting drama with a winning humorous streak. It becomes clear to the audience that the trip has a serious, possibly dangerous purpose involving the elder brother.
This is something that visibly concerns the mother, who often looks pensive and also gently chides her son about his smoking habit, perhaps channeling her anxiety into more controllable matters than the one facing them.
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