28 minutes that'll ruin your lunch—and you'll thank it later.
This documentary explores the economic, sociological, and cultural aspects of food systems and consumption in a major city, focusing on the disconnect between food production and consumption.
Direction
Carle's early mastery of poetic agit-prop.
Editing
Jarring cuts between abundance and emptiness.
Sound
Lamothe's narration haunts like a conscience.
Director
Louis Portugais
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Quebec's Quiet Revolution, when filmmakers weaponized the NFB to demand social change.
Carle would become Quebec's most beloved narrative filmmaker; this is his angry, hungry origin story.
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