SummaryAt The Bread Factory, they rehearse the Greek play, Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater where the town has been invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.
Directed By:Patrick Wang
Written By:Patrick Wang
A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
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Universal Acclaim
91
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8.3
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
91
89% Positive
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Oct 25, 2018
100
The most surprising and challenging thing about Part Two is how it takes one of the central ideas from Part One—art's ability help us understand and express ourselves in everyday life—and externalizes it, so that creativity that might otherwise have been confined to the stages of the arts centers erupts into the world outside.
Oct 25, 2018
100
The pleasures of theatrical performance become more pronounced, playful and complex in Part Two: Walk With Me a While, which, as its title hints, takes a meandering but fascinatingly surreal turn.
Oct 25, 2018
91
For Wang, the strictly personal is the building block for everything else—whether it’s the well-worn groove of a long-term relationship or a Chekhov pastiche performed by a woman wearing a samovar as a hat.
Oct 25, 2018
90
The focus on the workings of an American institution may remind some of the expansive comedies of Robert Altman or the documentaries of Frederick Wiseman. But also, the blurring of the line between performance and reality, the embrace of an intimate theatricality, recalls the work of Jacques Rivette. These are cinematic giants, and this director may be on his way to joining them.
Oct 28, 2018
88
Patrick Wang's particular skill as a filmmaker is his ability to approach well-worn narrative devices from fresh angles.
Dec 27, 2018
78
I would not recommend this film to everyone, but those seeking a poignant satire on art will be continuously rewarded, as the film seeks, over and over, to grapple (in often wondrous ways), with what it means to live.
Oct 25, 2018
60
Part Two, Walk With Me Awhile, is overstated and adds nothing story-wise short a few snippets that could have been incorporated into its predecessor.
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Universal Acclaim
8.3
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Jun 25, 2022
8
A clear follow-up to the first installment, but its structure makes it feel like a very different entity. It is as if it were a kind of anthology in which different stories are presented that seem to be more interconnected by their theme than by their storytelling so it flows in a more relaxed way than the first film and for that reason I enjoyed it more. Just don't even try it if you haven't seen the first one.
Production Company:
- In the Family
- Vanishing Angle
Release Date:Oct 26, 2018
Duration:2 h
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Awards
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 4 Nominations
