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American Factory

2019

Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

Documentary

6.6

2,086

Documentary In 2014, a Chinese billionaire opened a Fuyao factory in a shuttered General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio. For thousands of locals, the arrival of this multinational car-glass manufacturer meant regaining their jobs—and dignity—after the recession left them high and dry. At first, the culture clash is humorous. Transplanted Chinese workers attend trainings on dealing with their peculiarly casual and “chatty” American counterparts. But ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"An impressive ground-breaking exercise, heightening interest -- perhaps especially beyond the documentary genre -- in what's to come."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A complicated, multifaceted story that deals with very different cultures in combination and collision, a story that both understands global economic issues and has the sensitivity to involve us intimately in the daily lives of the people involved."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The filmmakers made the most of their freedom in a documentary that begins in sorrow with the G.M. closure and quickly turns buoyant with the arrival of Fuyao (...) Elegantly shot and edited"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"'American Factory' is anything but a dry documentary, and will likely be a prime contender in awards season"	POS
United Kingdom	Anthony Kaufman Screendaily	"It’s a deceptively lighthearted look at one of the most significant cultural and economic conflicts of our times (...) Skillfully constructed"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"The film is too earnest and well-intentioned to fall prey to racism, but there's a vein of xenophobia baked into its premise that lingers and leaves more of a bad taste than it should."	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Why can't American and Chinese industries get along? This fascinating documentary about a Chinese billionaire opening a glass factory in Ohio has the answers."	POS

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