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2018
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2 h 2 m

2018
Topic
2 h 2 m

Summary After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple--performance artists from China--come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.

Directed By: Patrick Wang

Written By: Patrick Wang

2018
Topic
2 h 2 m

2018
Topic
2 h 2 m

A Bread Factory Part One: For the Sake of Gold

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews

91

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings

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Summary After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple--performance artists from China--come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.

Directed By: Patrick Wang

Written By: Patrick Wang

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Oct 25, 2018

A Bread Factory is an idealistic statement about the importance of art in everyday life. It's about how a scene from a play or a line from a poem can cast a new light on your problems or dreams, maybe put a whole new frame around your life, your community, and the culture and nation that helped shape you.

By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Oct 25, 2018

Wang, weaving deftly in and out of his ensemble and revealing the characters’ interconnected relationships in piecemeal fashion, shows how the bonds of community and activism intersect, not always conveniently, with those of love and family.

By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW

Oct 25, 2018

Despite Wang’s habit of casual stylistic quotation (riffing on Ingmar Bergman’s compressed close-ups here, Wes Anderson’s whip pans there), A Bread Factory remains stubbornly its own thing.

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Oct 25, 2018

Patrick Wang’s A Bread Factory has an immense cast, a deliberate pace and thematic ambition to spare — but it also has a ground-level, plain-spoken modesty that renders it hypnotic.

By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW

Oct 28, 2018

Wang’s particular skill as a filmmaker is his ability to approach well-worn narrative devices from fresh angles, and here he manages to defend the importance of art, attack the neoliberal devastation of cultural liberalism, and argue for the renewed public commitment to the arts from a wryly comic perspective that eschews sentimentality.

By Jake Cole FULL REVIEW

Film Journal International

Oct 25, 2018

Part One, subtitled For the Sake of Gold, is original and intriguing.

By Simi Horwitz FULL REVIEW

Austin Chronicle

Dec 27, 2018

The film is episodic and often veers into hit-or-miss flights of fancy.

By Josh Kupecki FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings

67% Positive
4 Ratings

33% Mixed
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User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings

67% Positive
4 Ratings

33% Mixed
2 Ratings

0% Negative
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Production Company In the Family, Vanishing Angle

Release Date Oct 26, 2018

Duration 2 h 2 m

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Website http://www.facebook.com/abreadfactory

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Awards

International Cinephile Society Awards

• 4 Nominations

Film Independent Spirit Awards

• 2 Nominations

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