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Bugs

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Netherlands, Denmark, France · 2016
1h 15m
Director Andreas Johnsen
Starring Ben Reade
Genre Documentary

Chef Ben Reade and researcher Josh Evans from the Nordic Food Lab are looking to popularize edible insects as the future of sustainable food. They set out on a mission to take on the politics of the palate, sampling grubs in Australia, pillaging giant wasp nests in Japan, and attending food expos with farmed crickets.

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The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

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.

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Slant Magazine by Keith Watson

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.

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