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The Nothing Factory

2017 · 177 min

A slow, immersive plunge into workers' lives, mixing mundane detail with sudden musical bursts and a creeping sense of dislocation.

Overview
One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to survey the equipment and block the relocation of production, they are forced to stand at their posts with no work to do, as a form of retaliation, while negotiations over general lay-offs take place. The pressure leads to a breakdown of the workers along with the world around them.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • class
  • power
  • isolation
  • betrayal
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour4
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
music, drama
Directed by
Pedro Pinho
Written by
Luísa Homem, Tiago Hespanha, Jorge Silva Melo, Pedro Pinho
Starring
José Smith Vargas, Carla Galvão, Njamy Sebastião, Joaquim Bichana Martins, Danièle Incalcaterra, Dinis Gomes, Américo Silva, Joana Pais de Brito
Music
José Smith Vargas
Cinematography
Vasco Viana
Runtime
177 min
Country
Portugal
Languages
French, Portuguese

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