A fábrica de nada

A fábrica de nada

desistfilm

VALDIVIA INTERNACIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017: THE WINNERS

By Mónica Delgado & Aldo Padilla

FICValdivia has just ended, and here at Desistfilm, we offer you an extensive review of the winners of one of the best Latin American Film Festivals around. This year, we were witness of a variety of quality international and Chilean productions, films that had been touring different film festivals and other new ones recently released specially for Valdivia. This, alongside an excellent experimental showcase and a series of magnificent restorations, gave FICValdivia the status of an outstanding film festival, arguably the best of Latin America right now. 

READ MORE »
Cannes

CANNES 2017: THE NOTHING FACTORY BY PEDRO PINHO

By Mónica Delgado

A fábrica de Nada, presented in the Quinzaine de Realisateurs, speaks about something no other Cannes film has mentioned: the reality of a Europe that screams for a life jacket, but not because of migration or racism issues, xenophobia or bourgeois indifference; where the only exit is renouncing the world we live in, coped by the result of this economical system: nothingness.

READ MORE »
Cannes

CANNES 2017: A FÁBRICA DE NADA DE PEDRO PINHO

Por Mónica Delgado

A Fábrica de Nada es un relato sobre el desencanto, la impotencia o la renuncia de ver un posible cambio del sistema, en todo sentido. Un grupo de trabajadores de una fábrica de ascensores es seguido en un proceso dificultoso tras el anuncio intempestivo del cierre de la empresa, desde su entusiasmo inicial hasta la confirmación de la imposibilidad de lograr siquiera una pequeña revolución. Pedro Pinho realiza un original y sentido film de temática obrera, pleno de testimonios y reflexiones sobre la frustración de la vida laboral en tiempos de crisis.

READ MORE »