A scene from the documentary “American Factory.” “American Factory” doesn’t sound glamorous, and it’s theoretically possible to portray its narrative as a simplistic tale of put-upon workers going toe to toe with grasping capitalists. But it’s not.
As directed by the veteran team of Steven Bognar and Julia Reiche rt, what we have instead is a complicated, multifaceted story that deals with very different cultures in combination and collision, a story that both understands global economic issues and has the sensitivity to involve us intimately in the daily lives of the people involved.
Bognar and Reichart, with three Oscar-nominated films between […]
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