Unser täglich Brot 2006

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: 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. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: On a shot-by-shot basis, much of Our Daily Bread is stunning. Read more

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, compassion, and awe at the efficiency involved. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: An alarming vision of the antiseptic order we have created around the business of stocking our fridge. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: Essentially, it's a Koyanisquaasti for metal and meat fetishists, and that's no bad thing. Read more

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 labor. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Our Daily Bread is quietly radical in showing creatures whose existence is solely and inexorably a preparation for death. Read more