A Bread Factory: Part Two (2018)

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A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk with Me a While is most definitely a "Part Two", and is probably mystifying without having seen the first film. And if you HAVE seen the first film, your mileage may vary. I really wanted to see it because I loved the characters in Part One and was intrigued by the mysteries it left open. Unfortunately, Walk with Me a While anticlimactically undoes some of the first film's developments, and doesn't really answer the questions I wanted it to, like a two-hour coda more than a second story. It instead spends a lot of time on "guest artist spots" and meta moments, which yes, were present in the film film, but here take too much room and feel trite. I could understand in For the Sake of Gold that corporatized art was pretentious and fakey. Here, all the spontaneous singing and tap dancing smell like they're making fun of low brow art (what with the main plot being about staging Euripides for a modern audience), but I can't tell for sure. There are some great moments, again with the notion of art's transformative power, something visibly "clicking" inside a character's head, but this is definitely the tragedy to Part One's comedy, and so something of a downer. I nowhere near liked it as much. 3 years 5 months ago