The Nothing Factory

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The Nothing Factory

2017

2h 57m

Drama

Musical

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81%

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26 Reviews

90%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Factory workers go on strike in an attempt to stop the relocation of their workplace by its corrupt owners.

Jessica Kiang

Variety

It remains a granola-textured admixture to the end, which makes it a difficult sell. Not, perhaps, to festival audiences prepped for demandingly discursive fare, but to anyone outside those rarefied confines.

Jan 23, 2019

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

Its cerebral approach works better during sequences that are less dependent on narrative and more essayistic in nature.

Rated: 2/4

Mar 28, 2018

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

This is the kind of bold film-making, bristling with risks and ideas, that shakes up cinema from the inside.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 29, 2018

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

The Nothing Factory collects arguments and puts them into collision courses with each other: it doesn’t resolve anything, including the at-elite-reserve nature of its existence, which is as it should be.

Jan 10, 2023

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CJ Sheu

Review Film Review

Instead, the film captures each scene in a naturalistic, equanimous non-style, assuming incorrectly that they have the requisite attraction to motivate the film.

Jul 1, 2020

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Mariana Fernández

Butaca Ancha

The film has a very human and necessary message about the working class and its needs. [Full Review in Spanish]

Oct 8, 2019

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Daniel S

This might be the best film ever made. It was both surreal and acutely real, sad and yet so funny, down-to-earth and at same time sophisticated. I still can't tell who was an actor and who was an actual factory worker. Reading the story behind the film made me appreciate it even more. Just excellent.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/09/21

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Pedro Pinho

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Carla Galvão

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Njamy Sebastião

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Joaquim Bichana Martins

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Synopsis

Factory workers go on strike in an attempt to stop the relocation of their workplace by its corrupt owners.

Director: Pedro Pinho
Producer: Tiago Hespanha, Luísa Homem, João Matos, Leonor Noivo, Pedro Pinho, Susana Nobre
Screenwriter: Tiago Hespanha, Luísa Homem, Pedro Pinho, Leonor Noivo
Genre: Drama, Musical
Original Language: Canadian French
Runtime: 2h 57m