Workingman's Death 2005

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: It's not exactly a good time at the movies, and even as pure education, it's a rather dull film with very little dialogue. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Glawogger is an extraordinarily elegant filmmaker with a photographer's eye for striking compositions. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: It's a triumph of the human spirit that so many people in deadly jobs are able, nevertheless, to marry and have a few happy moments despite lives of hellish labor. Glawogger's intrepid camera finds both the shame and the grace in it. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: This documentary about men and women performing brutal work tasks for next to no money is full of arresting and eloquent images. Read more

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Leslie Felperin, Variety: Comes soaked in good old-fashioned humanist respect for the dignity of labor, but eventually grows a little monotonous. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Glawogger's film may be thematically loose-jointed, but Wolfgang Thaler's cinematography is the glue. Read more