Beautiful Things

  • 9.3 10
  • 2017
  • 96min
Beautiful Things
  • Original Title: Beautiful Things

This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the world who work in precarious and isolated environments.

Beautiful Things
Awards

AWARDS: Venice Film Festival. Best Italian Film ARCA Jury/ CPH:DOX. NEXT: WAVE Award/ Annecy Cinema Italian. Special Jury Award/ DOKER Moscow. Best Sound/ World Filmfest Houston. Best Music

Beautiful Things - Four portraits of workers and loneliness

This hybrid documentary 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.

Also, there is an Italian scientist in his echo-free chamber (blocking out the world's sounds); and finally, a waste plant operative. Creation, transport, marketing, and destruction – it’s a global chain of obsessive consumption.

Production Companies

Giorgio Ferrero & Federico Biasin


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