A Decent Factory

Name: A Decent Factory
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 29, 2005
Duration: 79 min
Rating: 54

2005

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First Run Features | Release Date: June 29, 2005

Summary: This documentary follows an Ethical and Environmental expert from Nokia as she travels to China to inspect the facilities under contract to her company.

Director: Thomas Balmes

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 79 min

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Ronnie Scheib

Fascinating case study of the moral quagmire of globalism. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

This film exposes a more insidious kind of exploitation, one far more difficult to detect. Read full review

Stanley Kauffmann

Why, then, is the picture chilling? Because it is a calm reminder of an inevitability. The sight of long lines of young women doing tiny bits of attachment work or packing hour after hour, day after day, is saddening. Read full review

Mark Peranson

A Decent Factory is just as much about the motives of the people asking the questions as those of the people avoiding the answers. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Though it lacks a focus or greater artistic vision, Thomas Balmès' no-frills documentary offers Westerners a valuable glimpse into the sweatshops of the new China. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Unintentionally funny is still funny, and the documentary A Decent Factory, had me giggling. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

A cursory, irritatingly facile look at the human cost of globalization. Read full review

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