The Runner (Naderi, 1984): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.15pm
This film is part of the Restored strand at BFI Southbank.
Time Out review:
An astonishing piece of film-making in which Amir Naderi's harsh account of
modern poverty supports passages of extravagant but unsentimental
lyricism. Amiro (Nirumand) is an illiterate ten-year-old orphan living
in a rusting tanker hulk, beached in a Persian Gulf shantytown. Life is a
struggle, and garbage-picking and peddling water just about pay for a
watermelon diet. Bigger boys try to steal his empty bottles, a man
snatches the block of ice he needs to cool the water he sells. Amiro
learns to fight back. He's a runner, and he wants to run with the best
of them. Young Nirumand gives a performance to make Rossellini weep, and
the soundtrack is a joy.
Pierre Hodgson
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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