Though it comes at the end of a decade when his fellow New Wave filmmaker Godard had already been plunging into Maoist style deconstructions of political art, Moullet's simpler and less flashy take on the contribution to exploitation of the Third World by unknowing French food consumers makes a direct and striking impact. the work, longer and made on a more extensive budget than his earlier features, centers on three types of food (eggs, canned tuna, and bananas) which the reporting traces to their sources in places like Senegal and Ecuador,and then follows bit by bit through the industrial chain as to how the workers who handle these foods are treated, how the products are packaged, advertised and marked up for profit, and how the workers at the French end of things fare by comparison.The rigorous approach leaves one with the conclusion that even a product like the celluloid the director has been using is part of this unfair capitalist system.
