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Joy of Man's Desiring(Que ta joie demeure)

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Canada · 2014
1h 10m
Director Denis Côté
Starring Guillaume Tremblay, Emilie Sigouin, Hamidou Savadogo, Ted Pluviose
Genre Documentary

Sound and image, editing and dramatic structure, are employed to transpose workshops and factory floors into cinematic space to explore the bizarre environments that workers adapt to and with which they skillfully interact, as if humanity had never done anything else since time immemorial.

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Village Voice by Melissa Anderson

Undeniably, the rhythms — of clanging machines, of humans at work and repose — seen and heard here are the tempo of the quotidian and the repetitive. Yet even in their mundanity, these factory routines are not without their exalted moments.

70

The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold

As with his other features, brevity — in this case, 1 hour 10 minutes — has a way of making the film seem minor. It’s a little diffuse, but it suggests that Mr. Côté is trying out a sketch, with more experiments to come.

70

Variety by Ronnie Scheib

Static, strikingly composed documentary stretches are interspersed with actors playing workers who voice a variety of complaints, appreciations and parables that deliberately, even pointedly, fail to encompass the sense of being there amid the unfolding spectacle.

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