Rooted in pervasive anxiety about terrorism and shot on the fly in New York, writer-director Jeff Stanzler's nutty digital-video parable of dysfunctions large and small is temporarily rescued from complete preposterousness by the grounded performances of its eclectic international cast, notably Robin Wright Penn, Tunisian actor-director Abdellatif Kechiche, French Elodie Bouchez and Canadian Sandra Oh. Hardworking cabbie Ashade (Kechiche), a Syrian Muslim immigrant, is struggling under the burden of supporting his destitute, French-Canadian sister-in-law, Eloise (Bouchez), who's in the country illegally with her small child, while they desperately try to interest som...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins