Kamion

When you get away from the festival-favorite Iranian film, it's hard to find two that are alike. KAMION/THE TRUCK does have the humanist sympathies that come up in the the best of these. They even have a scene where the Yazidi female lead disarms her boy companion when he wants to attack their protector for showing an interest in her unveiled face.

Plot, what there is of it, has the truck driver hired to take her, her baby and the boy and with their few household goods to Teheran where the baby's father has gone for work. When he's not where they were told they'd find him the abruptly blended group find themselves encountering the best and the worst of the city which is so new to the Yazidis.

The driver never considers abandoning her. His simplicity is one of the things that drives the film as they go from one adversity to the next.

The piece has a different look from what we usually see. Wide screen images often are ordinary though they do manage a few striking moments - the lights coming at the camera on the highway in the rain, the running woman overtaken by the truck in pursuit of the rug thieves. The improvised home they create out of her furniture in the rear cabin is a nice touch.

English language on the copy viewed was distractingly poor. "I didn't luck the door."