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  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 11 m
  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 11 m

Summary Marrying stunning visuals with social advocacy, Rahul Jain’s debut documentary — winner of the Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival — takes audiences into the labyrinthine passages of an enormous textile factory in Gujarat, India. Jain’s camera wanders freely between pulsating machines and bubbling vat...

  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 11 m
  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 11 m

Machines

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Marrying stunning visuals with social advocacy, Rahul Jain’s debut documentary — winner of the Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival — takes audiences into the labyrinthine passages of an enormous textile factory in Gujarat, India. Jain’s camera wanders freely between pulsating machines and bubbling vat...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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18% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
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18% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Aug 9, 2017
Machines proves both uncompromising and unforgettable.
By Aaron Hillis FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 23, 2017
It never succumbs to making poverty a graphic ornament.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 9, 2017
Showing levels of controlled concentration and unfussy flair far beyond what may be expected from a "student film," Machines powerfully evokes the sights and sounds — and almost even the smells — of a sprawling, stygian textiles plant south of India's eighth-largest (but very seldom filmed) city, Surat.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 9, 2017
While their situation feels futile, the film is almost poetic in posing important questions.
By Matt Looker FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 11, 2017
A spare and unflinching documentary about the true cost of cheap textiles, Machines doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know about the inhumane work conditions in countries like India, but it forces us to become palpably familiar with the awful facts of the matter.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 6, 2017
Rahul Jain’s film conveys with revelatory force the mechanization of people in an industrialized milieu.
By Kenji Fujishima FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 9, 2017
A film so obedient to current academic fashions in both politics and cinema aesthetics that it ends up feeling both contrived and a bit dishonest.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Jann Pictures, Pallas Film, IV Films
Release Date Aug 9, 2017
Duration 1 h 11 m
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Website http://www.pallasfilm.de/movies/machines/
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Awards

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Olhar de Cinema - Curitiba International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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