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In the Pit
Directed by
Juan Carlos Rulfo
Not Rated
2006
84m
Documentary
7.2
73%
50%
6.1
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A portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.
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Cast of In the Pit
Salvador Enriquez Castillo
Sofia García López
José Guadalupe Calzada
Isabel Dolores Hernández
Juan Carlos Rulfo
Director / Screenplay
In the Pit Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
If you've ever been fascinated by a large and complex construction site, Juan Carlos Rulfo's oddly affecting documentary may offer a kind of blue-collar bliss.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Life on the freeway is hell, but what comes next for these workers might be worse.
Washington Post
Philip Kennicott
Like the highway these men are building, Rulfo's film sails above the larger context that would actually bring emotional meaning to the lives he wants to celebrate.
Reel.com
Timothy Knight
A fascinating and eye-opening chronicle of work and class issues in contemporary Mexico.
Las Vegas Weekly
Josh Bell
Simple and often touching.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The workers are upstaged by their work. And the film is a tribute to impressive labor -- its own.
Los Angeles Times
Alex Chun
Equally as perplexing as its lack of perspective is the film's overall shortage of information.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
With countless Mexican workers laboring to build a massive freeway in Mexico City, filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo patiently focuses on a handful of the souls who might otherwise be forgotten among the working anonymous.
Film Journal International
Eric Monder
A terrific film.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
[Director] Rulfo's simple strategy of sticking close to his subjects and allowing them to wax philosophical about their lives and labors pays off.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Literally and existentially down and dirty, In the Pit is an absorbing documentary about work and the transformation of men into laborers.
Newsday
John Anderson
The men portrayed by Juan Carlos Rulfo in his colossally intimate film work under such precarious conditions that death must be as common as lunch pails.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Though earnest, 'In the Pit' does not take off.
Village Voice
Nathan Lee
In the midst of this nifty picture-making, one searches in vain for the big picture.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Juan Carlos Rulfo's In the Pit is a documentary defined by symbiosis.
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Louis Proyect
Formally elegant depiction of lives of ordinary workers involved with mammoth construction project.
Variety
Robert Koehler
For a film that depicts the filthy, dangerous work of building the second level of Mexico City's Periferico freeway, the unlikely beauty of Juan Carlos Rulfo's In the Pit is just one of the surprising complexities of [this film].
Film Threat
Don R. Lewis
After 45 minutes of seeing this hard work, we get the point.
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