Delivers the grind without sugar and clichés.

Fiction, but always with one foot firmly planted in a grim post-9/11 reality, the cast and crew got called terrorists by people passing by the set, and with a visit from the FBI to see if the film set was a coverup to conceal a terrorist plot in progress.

The darkly realistic cinematography of Michael Simmonds gives the film a near-documentary style in its depiction of the endless, physically draining work.

Recalling Italian neorealist movies such as The Bicycle Thief, Man Push Cart is a slice of a very sad life.

A sad, powerful, austere experience of a movie, this is the story of a man who has known profound, compound loss.

A sad, honest movie about the day-to-day courage and stoicism of decent people who cling to the lowest rung of the social ladder.

Man Push Cart, written and directed by Ramin Bahrani, attempts to put a human face on the men (and it is generally men) who work inside these tin boxes.

A slow-burn stunner, where nothing much of consequence happens, except life itself.