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.
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02/22/07
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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
A 21st century naked lunch ... an eye-opener that can actually change the way one views the world
01/23/09
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
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
This documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory.
11/23/06
Top CriticThe precisely composed result urges us to ponder the origins of the foodstuffs we wolf down each day.
01/24/08
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.
01/24/08
Eerily beautiful and profoundly unsettling.
11/24/06
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
Top CriticIts 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
The Benny's Video of documentary films, Our Daily Bread's only point is to have none.
09/13/06
Blandly surreal and mundanely terrifying -- a beautifully photographed glimpse inside a science-driven and machine-infested parallel reality as hypnotic as it is impersonal.
11/23/06
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
Our Daily Bread is quietly radical in showing creatures whose existence is solely and inexorably a preparation for death.
11/14/06
Top CriticWhile 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.
01/24/08
Essentially, it’s a Koyanisquaasti for metal and meat fetishists, and that’s no bad thing.
01/13/07
Displays some remarkable examples of factory farm automation while enlightening us that chickens are not born in plastic supermarket wraps.
08/18/06
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.
02/23/07
There is so much more going on than simply a morbid curiosity about meat
05/10/07
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