2009
TV-G
First Run Features
1 h 52 m

2009
TV-G
First Run Features
1 h 52 m

Summary Food Beware begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town's mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. It then talks to a wide variety of people with differing perspectives to find common ground - children, parents, teachers, health care workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, r...

Documentary

2009
TV-G
First Run Features
1 h 52 m

2009
TV-G
First Run Features
1 h 52 m

Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution

Name: Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-10-16
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Rating: 49
Cast: Perico Légasse

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews

29% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews

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NPR

By and large, the tone is gentle, the music French, and the food shot so delectably that you can all but smell the freshly baked bread.

By Bob Mondello FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Takes a pragmatic, health-based approach, buttressed by frightening statistics about cancer rates among children, that’s a refreshing change from the moral and high-cultural preening that sometimes enter this debate in America.

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Variety

Will have to overcome an unfortunate title and competition from this year's other nutrition-oriented titles, though it's a natural for the crunchy crowd.

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Time Out

Frightening statistics punctuate the film like death knells.

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The A.V. Club

Jaud isn’t telling a story so much as he’s making a case, and while his case is persuasive, it doesn’t really work as a movie. The information in Food Beware could fit just as easily--and just as effectively--into a pamphlet.

By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

Jean-Paul Jaud's indignant doc is equally worthless for preaching the merits of organic chow via an emotionally reactive argument instead of an investigative one.

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New York Post

If anything is frightening here, it's the scenes of the small children being indoctrinated into an organic lifestyle and being made to sing, at least three times, a song about the evils supposedly lurking in the environment around them.

By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company J B Séquences

Release Date Oct 16, 2009

Duration 1 h 52 m

Rating TV-G

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Tagline The French Organic Revolution

Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution

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