In the Pit

Name: In the Pit
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 2, 2007
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 61

2007

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Kino International | Release Date: February 2, 2007 | Unrated

Summary: According to Mexican legend, the devil demands that one soul be offered up for every bridge built, as a guarantee for the structure's durability. In Juan Carlos Rulfo's internationally-praised documentary, this age-old adage takes on mammoth proportions. (Kino International)

Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 84 min

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

The soft-spoken, impressionistic documentary (with a hypnotic score built from the sounds of construction) climaxes with a six-minute helicopter-cam view of the colossal structure to which these somebodies have been dedicating their sweat, and sometimes their very lives. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

With In the Pit [Rulfo] isn't advancing any totalizing theory, a treatise on transportation or an argument about alienation; he is, rather simply and elegantly, revealing the secret human face of a seemingly inhuman world. Read full review

Robert Koehler

Leo Heiblum's pulsating music and Samuel Larson's dense, fascinating sound editing rewardingly compliment Rulfo's electrifying visuals. Read full review

Bill White

Life on the freeway is hell, but what comes next for these workers might be worse. Read full review

Wesley Morris

It's an interesting, if dissatisfying rumination on the working people of industry -- how they labor, how they rest, what they think and feel. Read full review

Philip Kennicott

What Rulfo needs, unfortunately, is what too many trendy directors forsake: some social context, some succinct voice-overs and some talking heads to put the serious issues (urban poverty, urban stress, environmental degradation, corruption) into perspective. Read full review

Alex Chun

Equally as perplexing as its lack of perspective is the film's overall shortage of information. Read full review

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