Bugs

Name: Bugs
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 27, 2017
Duration: 73 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Ben Reade, Josh Evans, Roberto Flore

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: September 27, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Ben Reade, Josh Evans, Roberto Flore

Summary: With global food shortages on the horizon, forward-thinking chefs, environmentalists and food scientists are turning toward an unexpected source of protein: insects. Bugs is an artful and thoughtful new documentary that provides a perfect entry point to insect cuisine. For three years, a cast of charming and brave food adventurers from theWith global food shortages on the horizon, forward-thinking chefs, environmentalists and food scientists are turning toward an unexpected source of protein: insects. Bugs is an artful and thoughtful new documentary that provides a perfect entry point to insect cuisine. For three years, a cast of charming and brave food adventurers from the Nordic Food Lab traveled the world—from Europe to Australia, Mexico, Kenya, Japan and beyond—to learn what some of the two billion people who already eat insects had to say. Filmmaker Andreas Johnsen followed them as they foraged, farmed, cooked and tasted everything from revered termite queens and desert-delicacy honey ants to venomous giant hornets and long-horned grasshoppers. Throughout the team’s experiences, some hard questions started to emerge. If industrially produced insects become the norm, will they be as delicious and as beneficial as the ones in diverse, resilient ecosystems and cuisines around the world? And who will actually benefit as edible insects are scaled up? Equal parts travelogue, nature documentary, food porn and political treatise, Bugs is a beautifully shot film that makes a convincing argument for the inherent flavor of insects and raises unexpected and important questions about the future of our food culture along the way. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Andreas Johnsen

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 73 min

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Ben Kenigsberg

Sep 27, 2017

Bugs, an entertaining and eye-opening documentary from Andreas Johnsen, will send moviegoers out with a feeling of culinary adventurousness, eager to sample well-prepared escamoles (ant larvae) or termite queen with mango. Read full review

Keith Watson

Sep 25, 2017

It begins as a gleeful deadpan comedy and ends up as an exasperated cri de cœur against our current system of industrialized food production and distribution. Read full review

Brad Wheeler

Sep 28, 2017

Though it might initially look like a wacky foodie adventure show, Bugs has a conscience. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Sep 28, 2017

It’s gently comic, a touch naïve, and somewhat moving: These idealists are ready to fight to keep creepy-crawlies farm to table. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Oct 12, 2017

Input from a broader range of chefs and food experts, as well as sociologists and scientists, could have better fleshed out this brief study. Read full review

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