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The Nothing Factory

A fábrica de nada

2017

Pedro Pinho

Carla Galvão, Dinis Gomes, Américo Silva, José Smith Vargas

6.8

675

Drama One night, a group of workers realizes that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to survey the equipments and block the relocation of the production, they are forced to stand in their posts with no work to be done, as a form of retaliation, while the negotiations for a general lay off go on. The pressure leads to a general breakdown of the workers along the collapse of the world around them. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"While the film as a three-hour whole feels unbalanced, a few heart-to-heart conversations between Daniele and Ze cut directly to the core of the material, exploring the uses of fiction and lies in situations like these."	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"A shaggily eccentric but overlong and undisciplined drama (...) [It comes] into and out of focus so often that it dulls engagement"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"An adventurous, energetic piece (...) The film gets more unpredictable as it goes along (...) Intelligent and inventive if somewhat ragged round the edges."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"This isn't always an easy watch. But it's played with spirit, filmed with integrity and is pleasingly full of surprises (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A sprawling, intriguing, but finally exhausting film (...) The enigmatic story is acted with sincerity and force (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Diego Semerene Slant	"[Some] scenes convey 'The Nothing Factory's sociopolitical concerns more subtly and poetically than other moments in the film where characters expose their convictions to one another a little too pedagogically (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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