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“This is America and whatever I want to do, I will,” insists Pakistani immigrant Ahmad (Ahmad Ravzi). In his home country he’d been a popular singer (“The Bono of Lahore”). Now a widower estranged from his young son, he ekes out a living selling coffee and pastries from a pushcart in post-9/11 Manhattan. Will meeting Mohammad (Charles Daniel Sandoval), a banker with music industry contacts, and Noemi (Leticia Dolera), an attractive Catalan woman working at a newsstand, change his fortunes?
Inspired by Camus’ The Myth Of Sisyphus, writer/director Ramin Bahrani’s Man Push Cart is a spare yet affecting study of loneliness and resilience, zeroing in on the protagonist’s gruelling daily routine - And despite his micro-budget, Bahrani is a skilful, visual storyteller, shooting and framing the isolated Ahmad in ways that reinforce the theme of confinement.
"Souls-like meets Fable" is all this indie RPG needed to say to meet its Kickstarter goal, but it added in a Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood nod just for good measure
Gorgeous JRPG homage Clair Obscur sells out its collector's edition months before launch, dev says it didn't think "the demand for our physical editions would be so high"
Turn-based RPG Clair Obscur dev says all-star voice actor lineup includes people like Andy Serkis and Baldur’s Gate 3 alumni by accident: "He was like, 'Isn't that Clive from Final Fantasy?'"
