The Nothing Factory

The Nothing Factory (Portuguese: A Fábrica de Nada) is a 2017 Portuguese drama film directed by Pedro Pinho.[1] It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival[2][3] and the Bright Future section at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.[4] At Cannes it won the FIPRESCI Prize.[5]

The Nothing Factory
Film poster
Directed byPedro Pinho
Written byPedro Pinho
Produced byJoao Matos
Leonor Noivo
Luisa Homem
Pedro Pinho
Susana Nobre
Tiago Hespanha
StarringCarla Galvão
CinematographyVasco Viana
Edited byClaudia Oliveira
Edgar Feldman
Luisa Homem
Music byJose Smith Vargas
Pedro Rodrigues
Distributed byMemento
Release date
  • 25 May 2017 (2017-05-25) (Cannes)
  • 21 September 2017 (2017-09-21) (Portugal)
Running time
177 minutes
CountryPortugal
LanguagePortuguese

Cast
  • Carla Galvão
  • Dinis Gomes
  • Américo Silva
  • José Smith Vargas

Screening

Before The Nothing Factory was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was shown at various international film festivals, among which was Calgary,[6] Pune,[7] Thessaloniki[8] and BFI London Film Festival.[9]

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 80%, based on 25 reviews, and an average rating of 7.1/10.[10] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[11]

Jessica Kiang of Variety, while attending its screening at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, called The Nothing Factory "a shaggily eccentric but overlong and undisciplined drama".[12] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, said that the film is "evasive and self-deconstructing", adding as well that an "enigmatic story is acted with sincerity and force".[13]

Diego Semerene of Slant Magazine, gave the film 2 out of 4 and called it "cerebral".[14]

References
  1. Romney, Jonathan (25 May 2017). "'The Nothing Factory': Cannes Review". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  2. "Fortnight 2017: The 49th Directors' Fortnight Selection". Directors' Fortnight. French Directors Guild. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  3. Keslassy, Elsa (19 April 2016). "Cannes: Juliette Binoche-Gerard Depardieu Drama to Kick Off Directors Fortnight". Variety.
  4. "The Nothing Factory". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  5. Hopewell, John (31 May 2017). "Cannes Critics Prize 'BPM', 'Closeness', 'Nothing Factory'". Variety.
  6. "The Nothing Factory". Calgary International Film Festival. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  7. "The Nothing Factory". Pune International Film Festival. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  8. "The Nothing Factory". Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  9. "The Nothing Factory". BFI London Film Festival. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  10. "The Nothing Factory (A Fábrica de Nada) (2017)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  11. "The Nothing Factory Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  12. Kiang, Jessica (15 July 2017). "Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'The Nothing Factory'". Variety.
  13. Bradshaw, Peter (26 January 2018). "The Nothing Factory review – workers fight asset strippers in enigmatic epic". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  14. Semerene, Diego (28 March 2018). "Review: The Nothing Factory". Slant Magazine.


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