A Bread Factory Part One: For the Sake of Gold

Name: A Bread Factory Part One: For the Sake of Gold
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: October 26, 2018
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 91
Cast: Amy Carlson, Brian Murray, Elaine Bromka, Elisabeth Henry-Macari, George Young

2018

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A Bread Factory Part One: For the Sake of Gold

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E.D. Distribution | Release Date: October 26, 2018

Starring: Amy Carlson, Brian Murray, Elaine Bromka, Elisabeth Henry-Macari, George Young, Glynnis O'Connor, James Marsters, Janeane Garofalo, Janet Hsieh, Jessica Pimentel, Nana Visitor, Philip Kerr, Trevor St. John, Tyne Daly, Zachary Sayle

Summary: After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple--performance artists from China--come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.

Director: Patrick Wang

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Runtime: 122 min

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Alan Scherstuhl

Oct 25, 2018

The film, a sort of cinematic state-of-the-arts speech, is endlessly warm, playful and lovable, a sprawling and prankish hangout comedy with no clear precedent. Read full review

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Justin Chang

Oct 25, 2018

Wang, weaving deftly in and out of his ensemble and revealing the characters’ interconnected relationships in piecemeal fashion, shows how the bonds of community and activism intersect, not always conveniently, with those of love and family. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Oct 25, 2018

A Bread Factory is an idealistic statement about the importance of art in everyday life. It's about how a scene from a play or a line from a poem can cast a new light on your problems or dreams, maybe put a whole new frame around your life, your community, and the culture and nation that helped shape you. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Oct 25, 2018

Patrick Wang’s A Bread Factory has an immense cast, a deliberate pace and thematic ambition to spare — but it also has a ground-level, plain-spoken modesty that renders it hypnotic. Read full review

Jake Cole

Oct 28, 2018

Wang’s particular skill as a filmmaker is his ability to approach well-worn narrative devices from fresh angles, and here he manages to defend the importance of art, attack the neoliberal devastation of cultural liberalism, and argue for the renewed public commitment to the arts from a wryly comic perspective that eschews sentimentality. Read full review

Robert Abele

Oct 25, 2018

There’s nothing else out there like Patrick Wang’s two-part, four-hour labor of love, A Bread Factory, and that’s wholly a good thing. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Dec 27, 2018

The film is episodic and often veers into hit-or-miss flights of fancy. Read full review

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Ananisapta

Apr 19, 2020

This review will cover parts one and two -- it's really one long movie though it tells many stories. If you need to be spoon-fed a simple story in coherent chunks, I suggest looking elsewhere. This is not a film for simple-minded people. It wanders and dithers and sprawls and never has theThis review will cover parts one and two -- it's really one long movie though it tells many stories. If you need to be spoon-fed a simple story in coherent chunks, I suggest looking elsewhere. This is not a film for simple-minded people. It wanders and dithers and sprawls and never has the same style for fifteen minutes on end. It is as various and wonderful and infuriating as life itself. It took me about an hour to begin to grasp how the various stories were related to one another, and another couple of hours to see that incoherence was part of the message. The last hour brings the stories home, though it's no place I've ever lived, yet it's every place at once. The array of talent is awesome. If you love theater, you should not miss this film. To say more would truly be gilding the lily.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Jun 25, 2022

The cost and sacrifice of making real art. Maybe too idealistic, but if you can't have hope for it, then this film and many others who fight for it would be meaningless. The only thing I didn't like, is that despite being two hours long, it feels longer than that. The pace is quite slow.

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