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- 2005
- First Run Features
- 1 h 19 m
- 2005
- First Run Features
- 1 h 19 m
Summary This documentary follows an Ethical and Environmental expert from Nokia as she travels to China to inspect the facilities under contract to her company.
Directed By: Thomas Balmès
- 2005
- First Run Features
- 1 h 19 m
- 2005
- First Run Features
- 1 h 19 m
A Decent Factory
54
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Summary This documentary follows an Ethical and Environmental expert from Nokia as she travels to China to inspect the facilities under contract to her company.
Directed By: Thomas Balmès
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
75% Mixed
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0% Negative
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0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
54
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
75% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This film exposes a more insidious kind of exploitation, one far more difficult to detect.
Why, then, is the picture chilling? Because it is a calm reminder of an inevitability. The sight of long lines of young women doing tiny bits of attachment work or packing hour after hour, day after day, is saddening.
A Decent Factory is just as much about the motives of the people asking the questions as those of the people avoiding the answers.
Though it lacks a focus or greater artistic vision, Thomas Balmès' no-frills documentary offers Westerners a valuable glimpse into the sweatshops of the new China.
Unintentionally funny is still funny, and the documentary A Decent Factory, had me giggling.
A cursory, irritatingly facile look at the human cost of globalization.
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Production Company
Making Movies,
Margot Films,
Artline Films,
Yleisradio (YLE),
France 2 (FR2),
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
Humanistische Omroep Stichting,
TV2 Danmark,
Sveriges Television (SVT),
Lichtpunkt,
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS),
AVEK,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Jun 29, 2005
Duration 1 h 19 m
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