A Bread Factory Part One: For the Sake of Gold
E.D. Distribution | Release Date: October 26, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
91
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzOct 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
100
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangOct 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
100
L.A. WeeklyAlan ScherstuhlOct 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
91
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 25, 2018
Despite Wang’s habit of casual stylistic quotation (riffing on Ingmar Bergman’s compressed close-ups here, Wes Anderson’s whip pans there), A Bread Factory remains stubbornly its own thing. Read full review
90
The New York TimesBilge EbiriOct 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
88
Slant MagazineJake ColeOct 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
85
TheWrapRobert AbeleOct 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
75
Film Journal InternationalSimi HorwitzOct 25, 2018
Part One, subtitled For the Sake of Gold, is original and intriguing. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiDec 27, 2018
The film is episodic and often veers into hit-or-miss flights of fancy. Read full review
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