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Alina Wiktorska, Arkadiusz Rydellek, Barbara Hinz, Claus Hansen Petz, Renata Wypchlo

In the tradition of such acclaimed cinéma direct works as Jean Eustache's Le Cochon (1970) and Frederick Wiseman's Meat (1976) comes Nikolaus Geyrhalter's 92-minute documentary Our Daily Bread -- an i... read more read more...ronic, detached cinematic glimpse of how the food we eat on a daily basis is picked, killed, mechanically processed, and packaged for human consumption. Geyrhalter resists having an overtly political or muckraking agenda; instead, his sequence of images acts as an extended visual meditation, a plunge into the poetic mundanity of everyday existence. By singling out processes that we would otherwise take for granted or overlook, Geyrhalter calls our attention to the more absurd and surreal aspects of the food chain -- with the graceful and rhythmic, yet thoroughly strange and haunting, processes of automatization in the foreground. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 32 min.

Directed by: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Release Date: November 24, 2006

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DVD Release Date: January 13, 2009

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  • flixsterbum
    December 20, 2007
    flixsterbum
    This is a documentary in the purest sense of the word. No narration, no interviews, just an unblinking camera watching how our food is produced. Probably not a good idea to watch it while you're eating. I actually felt shades of "The Matrix" while watching chicks being shot th... read morerough conveyor belts and the assembly line slaughter of pigs and cows. A very cold, impersonal process. And while the scenes of the slaughterhouses are certainly more visceral, even some of the scenes of vegetable farming gives one pause, especially the scene showing guys dressed up in what amounts to radiation suits as they spray chemicals on tomatoes that will eventually be consumed by humans not wearing radiation suits. Definitely an eye-opening look into exactly how our food makes it to our table.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum
November 29, 2006
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

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, c... Full Review

Jan Stuart
November 24, 2006
Jan Stuart, Newsday

An alarming vision of the antiseptic order we have created around the business of stocking our fridge. Full Review

V.A. Musetto
November 24, 2006
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

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

Manohla Dargis
November 23, 2006
Manohla Dargis, New York Times

This documentary is an unblinking, often disturbing look at industrial food production from field to factory.

Leslie Felperin
November 23, 2006
Leslie Felperin, Variety

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 l... Full Review

J. Hoberman
November 14, 2006
J. Hoberman, Village Voice

Our Daily Bread is quietly radical in showing creatures whose existence is solely and inexorably a preparation for death. Full Review

Frank Scheck
November 8, 2006
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

Nikolaus Geyrhalter's beautifully shot and elegantly edited documentary belies the frequent ugliness of its subject matter.

Chris Barsanti
January 23, 2009
Chris Barsanti, PopMatters

A 21st century naked lunch ... an eye-opener that can actually change the way one views the world Full Review

Matthew Turner
January 25, 2008
Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

Surprisingly engaging documentary that manages to be soothing, fascinating and disturbing in equal measure. Full Review

Tom Dawson
January 24, 2008
Tom Dawson, Total Film

The precisely composed result urges us to ponder the origins of the foodstuffs we wolf down each day. Full Review

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