Our Daily Bread

Name: Our Daily Bread
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 24, 2006
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 86

2006

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Release Date: November 24, 2006

Summary: This documentary aims to show the industrial production of food as a reflection of our society's values: plenty of everything, made as quickly and as efficiently as modern technology permits. (First Run/Icarus)

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 92 min

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Manohla Dargis

Nikolaus Geyrhalter's superb documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory. Read full review

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Kenneth Turan

Despite this lack of narration, Our Daily Bread never fails to enthrall because of the impeccable eye -- for composition, for color, for movement within the frame -- of filmmaker Geyrhalter. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

What the activist drama "Fast Food Nation" does with talk and the aid of movie stars, Our Daily Bread, a riveting documentary by Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter, does even better, with no voice-over and barely a word spoken by the unidentified workers involved in matter-of-fact killing and harvesting. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Looks at the agricultural industry across Europe through sound and images alone. 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. Meanwhile, precisely composed lensing and painstaking sound design create moments of sublime beauty. Read full review

Frank Scheck

An eye-opener that handles its themes in a refreshingly nonexploitative manner. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

A thought-provoking documentary that would go well on a double bill with Richard Linklater's fictional "Fast Food Nation." Read full review

Noel Murray

The non-sensationalized "this is what really happens" approach makes Our Daily Bread extra-creepy at times. Read full review

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joomjim4

Jun 18, 2012

The film espies the whole process of food production before it's served in front of our table. It's a genuine film, probably too genuine that I am now decided not to eat meat anymore.

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PoppyR.

Nov 25, 2006

A stark and meditative look at the industry of European food production. The pace of the film imitates the mechanistic, sterile, cold process the harvest has become in today's alienated world. The viewer is allowed ample opportunity to ponder the question: when living under a system A stark and meditative look at the industry of European food production. The pace of the film imitates the mechanistic, sterile, cold process the harvest has become in today's alienated world. The viewer is allowed ample opportunity to ponder the question: when living under a system that makes every head of lettuce, cow, or factory worker a mere example of their category of being, are there significant differences between these lives? When a life is predetermined in its totalized relationship to the whole of the system is the only remaining choice whether or not to take pleasure in the hypnotic rhythm of the well-oiled machinery? More documentaries should so simply inspire critical reflection on the status of modern living as this one does.… Expand

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smartmart

Aug 24, 2015

An unsettling, yet fascinating look at the meat industry. Without using interviews or narration, the film just simply shows what goes into making the foods you love. A lot of the images are very shocking, and will disturb most viewers, and the film may even turn some people into vegetarians,An unsettling, yet fascinating look at the meat industry. Without using interviews or narration, the film just simply shows what goes into making the foods you love. A lot of the images are very shocking, and will disturb most viewers, and the film may even turn some people into vegetarians, you never know!… Expand

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