Our Daily Bread

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Our Daily Bread

Released Nov 24, 2006

1h 32m

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Filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter abstains from the use of voiceover narration and instead uses only images and sounds to chronicle the often unsettling ways in which food is processed. From vast mechanized farms to slaughterhouses, Geyrhalter presents it all and allows the audience to draw its own conclusions about the food people eat.

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A matter-of-fact, nearly wordless documentary, Our Daily Bread's spare presentation of slaughterhouses and human consumption serves up food for thought.

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Wendy Ide

The Times (UK)

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.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 24, 2008

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Tom Dawson

BBC.com

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.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 24, 2008

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David Parkinson

Empire Magazine

Chilling but compelling stuff.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 24, 2008

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Dorothy Woodend

The Tyee (British Columbia)

This near-wordless film depicts industrialized agriculture in all its mundane horror. As E. coli keeps popping up on lettuce, spinach or green onions, the repercussions of how we grow food on an epic scale are self-evident.

Aug 23, 2017

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Chris Barsanti

PopMatters

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

Jan 23, 2009

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Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

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

Rated: 3/5

Jan 25, 2008

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Terrence V

They could not even get the basic science correct.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/02/24

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jp k

Nik Geyrhalter pays homage to Kubrick and Wiseman. One of the best post-millenium movies going, it's made with a sure hand and that Kubrickian symmetrical eye, which lends a sense of space between the images & sound, and the viewer. The result? Room to think. That much is needed as what we take for granted is very seldom reflected upon. Here, we have reflection with a surgeon's gaze, and like a good doctor, Geyrhalter tells the truth, minus the didacticism. It's not for everyone; only the ascetic and those with a sense of design need apply.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/28/22

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Audience Member

A fascinating, shocking, and interesting look into the meat industry.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Audience Member

It may have been one of the worst documentaries I have ever sat through. Our Daily bread brings you through the food industry but only shows you the part of killing animals, cutting their body parts off and what the machines do. We don't see after the fact when things are packaged but just the brutal side of things. In the first 15 minutes you see many long shots showing animals being forced into lines to be killed, even though I know this happens every day. I don't need to watch a movie about it. Through those 15 minutes you see so much that already you want to turn it off. I was expecting someone to start talking but no, for all 90 minutes there is absolutely no talking whatsoever. This is filled with long shots that show what goes on in these plants and just shows how life less the people working there are. This film was hard to watch and was just boring, I was expecting another Food Inc but this is nothing close to that.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

Raw, graphic, and impactful; there is no need for narration for this documentary to leave a lasting impression.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

Finally got the courage to look at this much talked-of documentary about the food industry. It is a bit of a cliché, but really, it is so thought-provoking everyone should see it. It shows a reality most of us do not want to see.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter abstains from the use of voiceover narration and instead uses only images and sounds to chronicle the often unsettling ways in which food is processed. From vast mechanized farms to slaughterhouses, Geyrhalter presents it all and allows the audience to draw its own conclusions about the food people eat.

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Producer: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Michael Kitzberger
Screenwriter: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer
Distributor: First Run/Icarus
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 24, 2006, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 10, 2017
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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