Workingman's Death
Seventh Art Releasing | Release Date: February 24, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
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Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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83
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Workingman's Death's primary pleasures are aesthetic. Glawogger is an extraordinarily elegant filmmaker with a photographer's eye for striking compositions. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
Astonishingly powerful documentary about really, really hard work. Read full review
80
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Michael Glawogger's rather majestic Workingman's Death takes a symphonic structure to document some of the ugliest and most dangerous shit work on the globe. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
There's scant dialogue in Workingman's Death, but little is needed when majestic camera work by Wolfgang Thaler tells the story so well. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
This documentary about men and women performing brutal work tasks for next to no money is full of arresting and eloquent images. It has little dialogue, and little is needed. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
In the film's production notes, Mr. Glawogger wonders, "Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible?" In this visually impressive but proudly unscientific hymn to progress, the answers are yes and yes. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It's a triumph of the human spirit that so many people in deadly jobs are able, nevertheless, to marry and have a few happy moments despite lives of hellish labor. Glawogger's intrepid camera finds both the shame and the grace in it. Read full review
60
VarietyLeslie Felperin
Pic reps a sequel of sorts to his 12-part "Megacities" about poor folk in separate burgs, and comes soaked in good old-fashioned humanist respect for the dignity of labor, but eventually grows a little monotonous. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
John Zorn wrote the percussive score, which is compelling throughout. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
It's not exactly a good time at the movies, and even as pure education, it's a rather dull film with very little dialogue, but Glawogger does succeed in capturing the images, sounds and even imagined scents (oh, those burning goats) of contemporary hard labor, work that has become nearly invisible to us cubicle jockeys. Read full review
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