Eerily beautiful and profoundly unsettling.
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11/24/06
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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
On a shot-by-shot basis, much of Our Daily Bread is stunning.
11/27/06
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
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
"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.
01/18/07
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
Displays some remarkable examples of factory farm automation while enlightening us that chickens are not born in plastic supermarket wraps.
08/18/06
Chilling but compelling stuff.
01/24/08
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 Critic[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 film that is not easy to watch but one that should spark debate about the ethical treatment of animals.
12/01/06
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
An inside peek at the lethal logistics of the high-tech food industry, guaranteed to haunt you for meals to come.
12/25/06
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10/18/08
Nikolaus Geyrhalter's beautifully shot and elegantly edited documentary belies the frequent ugliness of its subject matter.
11/08/06
There is so much more going on than simply a morbid curiosity about meat
05/10/07
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04/18/07
A thought-provoking documentary that would go well on a double bill with Richard Linklater's fictional Fast Food Nation.
11/24/06
This documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory.
11/23/06
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