Import/Export 2007

Critics score:
83 / 100

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Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Ulrich Seidl's Import Export is an unflinching, at times almost unbearably hard yet moral look at human exploitation. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Import Export demands we contemplate the horror and the beauty of existence in equal measure. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The mood is as dismal as the weather in Import/Export, by Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Seidl's canny mix of professional and non-professional actors delivers a series of performances, major and minor, of genuinely heart-tugging truth and heartening humanity. Read more

Russell Edwards, Variety: Miserable but masterful. Read more

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Scott Foundas, Village Voice: Seidl's film arguably offers the toughest (and toughest to stomach) portrait of individuals tempest-tossed by the currents of the new global economy. Read more