After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple--performance artists from China--come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.... (Full plot summary below)
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After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple--performance artists from China--come to Checkford and build an enormous complex down the street catapulting big changes in their small town.
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| L.A. WeeklyAlan ScherstuhlThe film, a sort of cinematic state-of-the-arts speech, is endlessly warm, playful and lovable, a sprawling and prankish hangout comedy with no clear precedent. |
| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangWang, weaving deftly in and out of his ensemble and revealing the characters’ interconnected relationships in piecemeal fashion, shows how the bonds of community and activism intersect, not always conveniently, with those of love and family. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzA Bread Factory is an idealistic statement about the importance of art in everyday life. It's about how a scene from a play or a line from a poem can cast a new light on your problems or dreams, maybe put a whole new frame around your life, your community, and the culture and nation that helped shape you. |
| TheWrapRobert AbeleThere’s nothing else out there like Patrick Wang’s two-part, four-hour labor of love, A Bread Factory, and that’s wholly a good thing. |
| Slant MagazineJake ColeWang’s particular skill as a filmmaker is his ability to approach well-worn narrative devices from fresh angles, and here he manages to defend the importance of art, attack the neoliberal devastation of cultural liberalism, and argue for the renewed public commitment to the arts from a wryly comic perspective that eschews sentimentality. |
| The New York TimesBilge EbiriPatrick Wang’s A Bread Factory has an immense cast, a deliberate pace and thematic ambition to spare — but it also has a ground-level, plain-spoken modesty that renders it hypnotic. |
| The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyDespite Wang’s habit of casual stylistic quotation (riffing on Ingmar Bergman’s compressed close-ups here, Wes Anderson’s whip pans there), A Bread Factory remains stubbornly its own thing. |
| Film Journal InternationalSimi HorwitzPart One, subtitled For the Sake of Gold, is original and intriguing. |
| Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiThe film is episodic and often veers into hit-or-miss flights of fancy. |
| User ReviewAnanisaptaThis review will cover parts one and two -- it's really one long movie though it tells many stories. If you need to be spoon-fed a simple story in coherent chunks, I suggest looking elsewhere. This is not a film for simple-minded people. It wanders and dithers and sprawls and never has the same style for fifteen minutes on end. It is as various and wonderful and infuriating as life itself. It took me about an hour to begin to grasp how the various stories were related to one another, and another couple of hours to see that incoherence was part of the message. The last hour brings the stories home, though it's no place I've ever lived, yet it's every place at once. The array of talent is awesome. If you love theater, you should not miss this film. To say more would truly be gilding the lily. |
