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The True Cost

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Bangladesh, United States, Cambodia · 2015
Rated PG-13 · 1h 32m
Director Andrew Morgan
Starring Vandana Shiva, Stella McCartney, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver
Genre Documentary

Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.

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The Dissolve by Genevieve Koski

The True Cost’s aim is to make it impossible to ignore fashion’s impact on the world, and it takes an admirably thorough approach to its unwieldy subject. It’s not a particularly cinematic approach, however.

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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

Offering few solutions beyond a single fair-trade fashion company, The True Cost — whose serene interludes compete with sickening recordings of Black Friday shopping riots and so-called clothing haul videos — stirs and saddens. Not least because it’s unlikely to reach the young consumers most in need of its revelations.

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Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai

One would almost be inclined to give Morgan a pass for interviewing some of his executive producers as expert sources. A bigger disappointment is the missed opportunity to address the significant retailer markups that could have gone toward improving sweatshop conditions instead of profit margins.

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