Brain food that’s sometimes hard to stomach, Our Daily Bread should be wolfed down with all due haste.
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Our Daily Bread (2006)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:33
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: A matter-of-fact, nearly wordless documentary, Our Daily Bread's spare presentation of slaughterhouses and human consumption serves up food for thought.
Theatrical Release:Nov 24, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is... [More]
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
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Reviews for Our Daily Bread
Eccentrically lovely and frequently horrifying... animals look like caged men, human workers have the demeanor of mindless robots, and mechanical instruments seem almost organic and alive.
10/06/06
this is a film which, though not always palatable, leaves us with plenty to digest about our place in the food chain.
01/17/08
[A] return to a more observing style of documentary making as well as an audacious provocation that, in an odd twist, derives it audacity from its lack of explicit point of view.
04/10/06
A 21st century naked lunch ... an eye-opener that can actually change the way one views the world
01/23/09
Our Daily Bread seems to be stunned by the alienation that the workers, settings and, indeed, the products exist in. That's not to stay that scenes of cow and pig guts being spilled out are not also effective. Yeah, I think I'll have the salad.
11/29/06
intoxicating
11/29/06
Essentially, it’s a Koyanisquaasti for metal and meat fetishists, and that’s no bad thing.
01/13/07
Chilling but compelling stuff.
01/24/08
A film that is not easy to watch but one that should spark debate about the ethical treatment of animals.
12/01/06
Nikolaus Geyrhalter's beautifully shot and elegantly edited documentary belies the frequent ugliness of its subject matter.
11/08/06
Displays some remarkable examples of factory farm automation while enlightening us that chickens are not born in plastic supermarket wraps.
08/18/06
Our Daily Bread is quietly radical in showing creatures whose existence is solely and inexorably a preparation for death.
11/14/06
Top CriticAn alarming vision of the antiseptic order we have created around the business of stocking our fridge.
11/24/06
Top CriticEerily beautiful and profoundly unsettling.
11/24/06
An inside peek at the lethal logistics of the high-tech food industry, guaranteed to haunt you for meals to come.
12/25/06
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.
12/08/06
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.
11/23/06
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.
11/29/06
Top CriticChilling documentary on the inhumanity of food production, both to man and animal.
08/21/06
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