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Unser täglich Brot (Our Daily Bread) (2005)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 2

A matter-of-fact, nearly wordless documentary, Our Daily Bread's spare presentation of slaughterhouses and human consumption serves up food for thought.

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Average Rating: 8.1/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0

A matter-of-fact, nearly wordless documentary, Our Daily Bread's spare presentation of slaughterhouses and human consumption serves up food for thought.

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In the tradition of such acclaimed cinéma direct works as Jean Eustache's Le Cochon (1970) and Frederick Wiseman's Meat (1976) comes Nikolaus Geyrhalter's 92-minute documentary Our Daily Bread -- an ironic, detached cinematic glimpse of how the food we eat on a daily basis is picked, killed, mechanically processed, and packaged for human consumption. Geyrhalter resists having an overtly political or muckraking agenda; instead, his sequence of images acts as an extended visual meditation, a

Jan 13, 2009

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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (2) | DVD (2)

The camera simply looks, with unflinching interest, as plants and animals are processed (in European industrial settings) into the food we eat. It's up to the viewer to distinguish tastes of horror, compassion, and awe at the efficiency involved.

November 29, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
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An alarming vision of the antiseptic order we have created around the business of stocking our fridge.

November 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
Newsday
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A thought-provoking documentary that would go well on a double bill with Richard Linklater's fictional Fast Food Nation.

November 24, 2006 Comment
New York Post
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This documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory.

November 23, 2006 Comment
New York Times
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Pic offers a tabula rasa in which some auds will see a horrifying indictment of the industry's cruelties, others a realistic depiction of mechanized farming, and some a soft-spoken tribute to manual labor.

November 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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Our Daily Bread is quietly radical in showing creatures whose existence is solely and inexorably a preparation for death.

November 14, 2006 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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A 21st century naked lunch ... an eye-opener that can actually change the way one views the world

January 23, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
PopMatters

Pair with Michael Pollan's treatises on food, or with The Gleaners and I and King Corn

January 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Habit | Comment
Movie Habit

An inside peek at the lethal logistics of the high-tech food industry, guaranteed to haunt you for meals to come.

January 10, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

Surprisingly engaging documentary that manages to be soothing, fascinating and disturbing in equal measure.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

The precisely composed result urges us to ponder the origins of the foodstuffs we wolf down each day.

January 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

Brain food that's sometimes hard to stomach, Our Daily Bread should be wolfed down with all due haste.

January 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Sky Movies | Comment
Sky Movies

While there's a sober beauty to much of the film, it does drag on a little and you find yourself wondering what exactly is the point that Geyrhalter is trying to make.

January 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comment
Times [UK]

This isn't a film which tells you what to think, and it doesn't propose any alternatives to the status-quo, yet it has the gift of making you look at reality anew.

January 24, 2008 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

Chilling but compelling stuff.

January 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

this is a film which, though not always palatable, leaves us with plenty to digest about our place in the food chain.

January 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

There is so much more going on than simply a morbid curiosity about meat

May 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Habit | Comment
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April 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

Compelling, distressing documentary about the weirdly mechanized world of industrial farms, slaughterhouses and other sources of mass-produced food has a surrealist edge that gives the film a dreamlike ambience.

February 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

It's as much conceptual art as dispassionate survey of the bloodless assembly line nature of the modern food industry, all process and work, automation and repetition.

February 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Comment
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Our Daily Bread" is still a haunting and worthy effort that finds beauty in the ugliest of places and leaves us to dwell on the paradox, especially over our next meal.

January 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Essentially, it's a Koyanisquaasti for metal and meat fetishists, and that's no bad thing.

January 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

An inside peek at the lethal logistics of the high-tech food industry, guaranteed to haunt you for meals to come.

December 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Final Call | Comment
Final Call

Difficult to sit through, Our Daily Bread is nonetheless an important record, invaluable for those with the courage to watch it.

December 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian

Its great political function is its seeming objectivity, a silence in the face of the hypertechnologized food industry that is itself thoroughly interrogatory and demanding.

December 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Unser täglich Brot (Our Daily Bread)

This is a documentary in the purest sense of the word. No narration, no interviews, just an unblinking camera watching how our food is produced. Probably not a good idea to watch it while you're eating. I actually felt shades of "The Matrix" while watching chicks being shot through conveyor belts and the assembly

December 20, 2007
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J Dean

This is the best documentary I've seen on the production of food. The lack of any narrative enhances the film's visual impact and demands the viewer come up with his or her own conclusions. While it may not be for everyone, 'Our Daily Bread' is an objective look at modern day agriculture that is an important

November 14, 2009
The Bad Guy
Paul Something

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