When management of a Lisbon factory manufacturing elevators starts removing valuable equipment in the middle of the night, the workforce occupies the plant to prevent its closure and, offed on by a radical Italian film-maker, debates the prospect of taking over the business and running it as a co-operative.
Exploring workers' rights in an age of mechanisation and recession, this isn't always an easy watch. But it's played with spirit, filmed with integrity and is pleasingly full of surprises.
A film which proves that you can fight the power while dancing at the same time.
Pedro Pinho’s sprawling, deadpan drama about a Portuguese lift factory threatened with shutdown is finally evasive with acted with force.
This is the kind of bold film-making, bristling with risks and ideas, that shakes up cinema from the inside.
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