The Forgotten Space
Doc.Eye Film | Release Date: February 15, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
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75
Slant MagazineKalvin HenelyFeb 14, 2012
If you think of Wall Street as capitalism's symbolic headquarters, filmmakers Allan Sekula and Noël Burch more or less show us in The Forgotten Space how the sea is capitalism's global trading floor writ large. Read full review
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The New York TimesA.O. ScottFeb 16, 2012
Unabashedly polemical and rigorously pessimistic, a sustained Marxian indictment of 21st-century capital. The narration, by Mr. Sekula, is at times lyrical and rarely subtle, but the film is most graceful and moving when its argument slows down or wanders into an interesting tangent. Read full review
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Village VoiceMark HolcombFeb 14, 2012
Epic in scope, intellectual agility, and the potential to induce panic and despair, this documentary exploration of global trade as an emblem of economic apocalypse avoids (just barely) doom-mongering by virtue of its compassion and visual grandeur. Read full review
50
VarietyJay WeissbergFeb 14, 2012
Sekula's overwritten narration, with its fair share of whoppers, does his argument no favors, overwhelming genuinely interesting statistics. Read full review
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Time OutKeith UhlichFeb 14, 2012
For the most part, The Forgotten Space treats its subjects and settings as exploitable commodities in service to a lot of facile rise-working-man! muckraking. The ism trumps all. Read full review
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