Luc Moullet s Food Lessons Origins of a Meal

摘要

Over the past decade numerous important films have documented the production of what we eat and drink, often with the filmmaker taking a lead role as investigative reporter.1 Several of these films did extremely well at the box office, garnering numerous awards, and four of them — Super Size Me, Darwin's Nightmare, Food, Inc. and The Cove—were nominated for Oscars.2 With all the recent attention given to such documentaries, it is easy to overlook Luc Moullet's groundbreaking Genese d'un repas (Origins of a Meal, France, 1980). With its handwritten title card and credits, Origins of a Meal was, thirty years ago, at the vanguard of the current wave of food-focused documentaries.