Beautiful Things

Hybrid documentary-drama focusing on our obsessive consumption. Winner of Best Italian Film at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.

"[The film is] Structured in four parts: Oil, Cargo, Measure and Ash. Each act focuses on a worker in a distinct isolated environment: a maintenance man on US oilrigs; a Filipino in the bowels of a supertanker; an Italian scientist in his echo-free chamber (blocking out the sounds of the world); and finally, a waste plant operative. Creation, transport, marketing and destruction ... Visually arresting, with a striking soundscape, Beautiful Things is also a compelling meditation on work and alienation." (Sydney Film Festival)

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