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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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10/18/08
Surprisingly engaging documentary that manages to be soothing, fascinating and disturbing in equal measure.
01/25/08
The precisely composed result urges us to ponder the origins of the foodstuffs we wolf down each day.
01/24/08
Brain food that’s sometimes hard to stomach, Our Daily Bread should be wolfed down with all due haste.
01/24/08
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.
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
Chilling but compelling stuff.
01/24/08
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
There is so much more going on than simply a morbid curiosity about meat
05/10/07
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04/18/07
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
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.
02/22/07
"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
Essentially, it’s a Koyanisquaasti for metal and meat fetishists, and that’s no bad thing.
01/13/07
An inside peek at the lethal logistics of the high-tech food industry, guaranteed to haunt you for meals to come.
12/25/06
Difficult to sit through, Our Daily Bread is nonetheless an important record, invaluable for those with the courage to watch it.
12/15/06
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
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
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