SummaryWith global food shortages on the horizon, forward-thinking chefs, environmentalists and food scientists are turning toward an unexpected source of protein: insects. Bugs is an artful and thoughtful new documentary that provides a perfect entry point to insect cuisine. For three years, a cast of charming and brave food adventurers from the Nordic... Read More
Directed By:Andreas Johnsen
Bugs
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
80% Positive
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Sep 27, 2017
80
Bugs, an entertaining and eye-opening documentary from Andreas Johnsen, will send moviegoers out with a feeling of culinary adventurousness, eager to sample well-prepared escamoles (ant larvae) or termite queen with mango.
Sep 28, 2017
75
Though it might initially look like a wacky foodie adventure show, Bugs has a conscience.
Sep 25, 2017
75
It begins as a gleeful deadpan comedy and ends up as an exasperated cri de cœur against our current system of industrialized food production and distribution.
Sep 28, 2017
70
It’s gently comic, a touch naïve, and somewhat moving: These idealists are ready to fight to keep creepy-crawlies farm to table.
Oct 12, 2017
60
Input from a broader range of chefs and food experts, as well as sociologists and scientists, could have better fleshed out this brief study.
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Production Company:
- Rosforth
- Danish Documentary Production
- Clin d'Oeil
- Clin d'oeil Films
- Danmarks Radio (DR)
- Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH
- Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
- Submarine
- Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)
Release Date:Sep 27, 2017
Duration:1 h 13 m
Tagline:Will eating insects save our Earth?
Awards
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Bodil Awards
• 1 Nomination
