Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 13 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 6.6/10
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]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Director: David Redmon
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Director David Redmon earns accolades galore for crafting a dmning expose' which brilliantly contrasts the plight of exploited Asian females with the embarrassing behavior of drunks and bimbos floating up Bourbon Street on Fat Tuesday.
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07/25/08
This investigative literal and figurative global chain reaction appears to be yet another exceptionally worthy addition to the evolving genre of what may be termed anti-globalization cinema.
07/12/08
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11/11/06
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08/19/06
... 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 ...
08/13/06
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.
08/10/06
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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.
08/10/06
At minimum, this two-dimensional documentary does a decent job of displaying cavalier consumption alongside globalization and exploitative manufacturing.
04/28/06
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Feels like a sermon on vegetarianism being delivered to occupants of a Sudanese refugee camp.
03/24/06
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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.
03/24/06
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A startling look at both the effects of globalization and at a dramatic cultural divide.
03/23/06
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This sly, engrossing doc is an expert riposte to smug proponents of the fetterless free market.
03/21/06
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Every time you lift your shirt, some Chinese girl is reaching her twisted, aching hand for another Band-Aid.
02/10/06
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.
10/01/05
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(DOCU)-MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA is set to open in NYC on March 24, 2006!!!
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