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Something might come of Nothing
MARIA DUARTE sees an unusual film about the class consciousness that develops among a group of Lisbon workers faced with the destruction of their livelihoods
Nothing Factory 8/2/18

The Nothing Factory
Directed by Pedro Pinho

 

IN THE Nothing Factory, a group of Portuguese workers stage their own mini-revolt in a fight to stop their lift factory from closing and save their jobs in what's a surreal portrait of work in modern times.

 

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