A Bread Factory (Patrick Wang, 2018)

It's a four-hour film (in two parts that we had to pay for separately at BAM, hmph!) about the survival of a small-town community arts organization. Not all of it worked. Several moments reminded me that satire is what closes on Saturday night. But overall, it achieves beauty in delineating a community--John Ford would be proud. No single figure dominates. The length gives characters time to soliloquize. And it aims to transcend boundaries of sex, sexuality, race, age, and friendship. It deserves your four hours.