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  • 2011
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Summary The world center for ship-breaking is located in the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh — perhaps the poorest nation on earth — is home to the ship-breaking industry. Here huge megaton behemoths that once sailed the seas are sent to be broken apart by men and boys (some as young as 12, often wearing flipflops) who earn $2 a day, from ...

Directed By: Bong-Nam Park

Written By: Ye-Won Moon

  • 2011
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  • 2011
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Iron Crows

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary The world center for ship-breaking is located in the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh — perhaps the poorest nation on earth — is home to the ship-breaking industry. Here huge megaton behemoths that once sailed the seas are sent to be broken apart by men and boys (some as young as 12, often wearing flipflops) who earn $2 a day, from ...

Directed By: Bong-Nam Park

Written By: Ye-Won Moon

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
86% Positive
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14% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
86% Positive
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
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14% Negative
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80
Aug 25, 2011
Virtually an experimental film -- the humanity is rich, but pure image and sensation are what makes it tick.
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80
Aug 24, 2011
The filmmaking is patient and participatory, getting down in the dirt with the workers (in one case the lens is even soaked by a spray of sludge) and allowing several touchingly distinct personalities to emerge.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 23, 2011
A startlingly beautiful documentary by Bong-Nam Park that is also devastatingly sad.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 25, 2011
Iron Crows isn't the miserablist wallow you might expect. While director Park Bong-Nam observes the hazards of ship-breaking with a thoroughness that borders on fetishization, he also catches the humor and camaraderie of men in the trenches.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 24, 2011
The movie has no story per se, and there are times when it does seem like Park is hovering, vulture-like, over his subjects' shoulders, waiting for a disaster. But Iron Crows isn't devoid of natural human exuberance, nor is it immune to the awesome spectacle of a dangerous job.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 23, 2011
Park's view - clearly inscribed in his well-structured, practically chapter-headed ("After Hours," "Payday," "Back at the Village") documentary - is that the hideous working conditions and low wages are due to man-made avarice; the workers, though, tend toward a fatalism based in religious predestination.
By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW
38
Aug 22, 2011
A maddeningly blunt and syrupy rendering of a piquant socio-economic configuration, Park Bong-Nam's Iron Crows is ultimately third-world documentary filmmaking at its most exploitatively surface-groping.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Aug 26, 2011
Duration 1 h
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Awards

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Camerimage
• 1 Nomination
ZagrebDox
• 1 Nomination

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