I recently had the privilege of catching the beautiful independent film Man Push Cart at the London Film Festival.
It's a poignant film about the struggles of an immigrant bagel-cart vendor in New York, buffeted about by life. A great snapshot of street life in one of the world's greatest cities.
Man Push Cart is inspired by Camus's retelling of the myth of Sisyphus. Its translation to the world of the push cart vendor forced to a life of dragging his cart about for what must seem like eternity, all the while boxed into his cart by circumstances represents an extremely strong concept with universal appeal.
And new director Ramin Bahrani pulls it off magnificently with the aid of brooding Pakistani actor and former pusher of a cart, Ahmad Razvi.
Fittingly, Man Push Cart won the prestigious International Critics' award from FIPRESCI at the LFF too.
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