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Mardi Gras: Made in China

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Mardi Gras: Made in China (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 12  Rotten:6 Average Rating: 6.4/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 74 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 24, 2006 Limited
Synopsis:
An interesting take on globalization, MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA takes a look at the journey of some Mardi Gras beads, as they are constructed in a factory in China, then make their way across the globe. [More]
An interesting take on globalization, MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA takes a look at the journey of some Mardi Gras beads, as they are constructed in a factory in China, then make their way across the globe. [Less]

Genre: Education/General Interest

Director: David Redmon

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Global capitalism chain reaction.

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05/04/07 06:35 PM
Prairie Miller
WBAI Web Radio
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Goes halfway around the globe without halfway giving us perspective.

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02/06/07 07:56 AM
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
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11/11/06 03:47 AM
Stuart Klawans
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08/19/06 03:26 AM
Ray Greene
Boxoffice Magazine
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... doesn't make you proud to wave the red, white and blue, and even manages to sober up a few Mardi Gras revelers in the process ...

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08/13/06 12:50 AM
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News
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Mardi Gras: Made in China is a thought-provoking, canny piece of filmmaking that puts flesh, blood and garish multicolored baubles on the skeleton of globalization.

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08/10/06 03:36 PM
Michael Ordoña
Los Angeles Times
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This smart, witty look at the human cost of free-market reforms and globalization tracks the necklaces from hard labor at one end to hedonism at the other.

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08/10/06 12:03 PM
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly
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At minimum, this two-dimensional documentary does a decent job of displaying cavalier consumption alongside globalization and exploitative manufacturing.

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04/28/06 05:28 PM
Janice Page
Boston Globe
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Slyly devastating.

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03/24/06 02:49 PM
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Feels like a sermon on vegetarianism being delivered to occupants of a Sudanese refugee camp.

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03/24/06 02:47 PM
John Anderson
Newsday
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Would play better if it were more focused and less repetitive.

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03/24/06 02:45 PM
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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When [Redmon] runs out of things to say, his film lands in an anticlimactic puddle, just like the shiny trinkets forgotten after the party ends.

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03/24/06 02:43 PM
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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A startling look at both the effects of globalization and at a dramatic cultural divide.

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03/23/06 05:27 PM
Laura Kern
New York Times
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This sly, engrossing doc is an expert riposte to smug proponents of the fetterless free market.

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03/21/06 12:54 PM
Jessica Winter
Village Voice
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Every time you lift your shirt, some Chinese girl is reaching her twisted, aching hand for another Band-Aid.

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02/10/06 03:07 PM
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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... recommended viewing.

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12/06/05 07:36 PM
Eric Campos
Film Threat
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A humorous, economically revealing documentary.

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12/06/05 07:36 PM
Stina Chyn
Film Threat
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A wry, eye-opening documentary.

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10/01/05 03:32 AM
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com
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Redmon blunts his own provocative points by trafficking in easy ironies and overstating the obvious throughout 78-minute pic that likely would be more effective as hour-long (or shorter) pubcast program.

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10/01/05 03:32 AM
Joe Leydon
Variety
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Redmon is impressively hands-off, allowing the material to speak for itself about the headless beast of globalization.

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09/30/05 05:35 PM
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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