
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.... (Full plot summary below)
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A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Sukhdev SandhuImport Export is a work of the utmost political importance. It is also, in its rigour and fearlessness, its sorrow and pitilessness, an outstanding artistic achievement. |
| Cinema ScopeChristoph Huber... fierce humanism in the face of a world shaped by market logic and humiliation. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoThe mood is as dismal as the weather in Import/Export, by Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisUlrich Seidl's Import Export is an unflinching, at times almost unbearably hard yet moral look at human exploitation. |
| Boxoffice MagazineMatthew NestelTechnically, the sedate yet stunning 35mm camera is there for the ride and somehow never imposes or dominates the content. And the result is a true triumph. |
| Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierThe titular backslash of Import/Export turns out to be a vast geographical schism, crossed only intermittently by thin strands of mutual emotional anguish. |
| Independent (UK)Andy GillAt times it feels like a continuation of Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4-ever in its catalogue of injustices and humiliations, yet, against the odds, it rewards your endurance. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThe Austrian miserablist who gave us Dog Days - sharper and more mischievous in its portrait of exurbia's human excreta - delivers an essay in symmetrical despondence that seems both tidy and empty, like a trash can after street-cleaning. |
| Film4Tom DawsonA political film in the widest sense of the term, the strongly acted and dispassionately photographed Import/Export holds up a troubling mirror to our times. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonA sobering treatise on the bleakness of existence. |