The Nothing Factory (Portuguese: A Fábrica de Nada) is a 2017 Portuguese drama film directed by Pedro Pinho, whose prior works were documentaries.[2] It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival[3][4] and the Bright Future section at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.[5] At Cannes it won the FIPRESCI Prize.[6]
"One night, a group of workers realizes that their administration has organized the stealing of machines from their factory. They soon understand that this is the first signal of a massive layoff. Most of them refuse to co-operate during the individual negotiations and they start to occupy their workplace...."[7]
The film is inspired in part by the Portuguese Fataleva (Fortis Elevadores Ltda) factory workers who ran it collectively from 1975 to 2016,[8][9][10] after being taken over by the Otis Elevator Company in 1970.[11][12] It is inspired in part by De Nietsfabriek, a 1997 Dutch play by playwright and poet Judith Herzberg.[13][14]
The Nothing Factory was shot with 16 mm film and grainy in appearance.[15][16] A Portuguese collective of filmmakers who share all credits, Terratreme, produced this work, and all of Pinho's prior works.[17]
Before The Nothing Factory was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was shown at various international film festivals, among which was Calgary,[18] Pune,[19] Thessaloniki[20] and BFI London Film Festival.[21]
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 81%, based on 26 reviews, and an average rating of 7.1/10.[22] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[23]
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".[24] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, said that the film is "a sprawling, intriguing, but finally exhausting film", "evasive and self-deconstructing", adding as well that an "enigmatic story is acted with sincerity and force".[10] Diego Semerene of Slant Magazine, gave the film 2 out of 4 and called it "cerebral".[25] Screen Daily said, "The film gets more unpredictable as it goes along...an ensemble piece with something of a community theatre feel"[13] The Hollywood Reporter said, "The straightforward, nonfiction-like material is laced with short montage sequences, set to rock music, in which capitalism and the current state of the Old Continent are discussed in voiceover."[14] Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook said, "The Nothing Factory is a prime example of the cinema of small nations"[26]
2018 Sophia Awards (pt) for Best Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay.[27]
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