Rating: NNN
Finnish director Katja Gauriloff’s consideration of the international labour that produces the ingredients of a can of European ravioli – tomatoes from Portugal, beef from Poland, pork raised in Denmark and slaughtered in Romania, and so forth – is an ambitious project that ends up wallowing in misery and gore.
It’s Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s spellbinding factory-farming doc Our Daily Bread if Geyrhalter had been a sadist bent on driving the viewer from the auditorium.
Gauriloff’s camera watches blankly as a workers talk of their empty lives while mechanically slaughtering cows and pigs – the camera lingering over the awful offal to make sure we know precisely how dehumanizing their work is.
But it’s hard to process that tragic reality when you’re staring at a bucket of discarded bovine eyeballs.
