Canned Dreams: Film Review
Individually interviews nine different food-industry workers about their lives and aspirations. After a prologue in Brazil, where the raw materials for the aluminum cans are mined in alarmingly hazardous conditions, the focus moves to the more tranquil and relatively 'regulated' Europe - principally Denmark (pork), Poland (beef), Ukraine (wheat) and Romania (pork again), with shorter visits to Portugal (tomatoes), France (eggs) and Italy (olive oil).The epilogue returns to France and the factory where the ravioli is assembled and canned, before being trucked all the way up to Finland and supermarket display. The amount of 'food miles' involved in the whole complicated process evidently runs well into the thousands, as we see in a brisk film which eschews authorial commentary and editorializing but which is obviously motivated by a desire to educate consumers about matters rarely seen and usually taken for granted.
Heikki Färm and Tuomo Hutri Source: Hollywood Reporter
