La genèse d'un repas

Luc Moullet's work is mainly analytic and didactic, as he demonstrated when he worked as a critic for . His films are characterized by a lucid approach of his subjects.
At a first glance Moullet seems to keep close to home in la genèse d'un repas. He goes out shopping for his meal. Tunafish, eggs, and a banana for dessert. While he is having his meal he wonders where all this food comes from, which results in a journey to find out about the origins of the food. The eggs turn out to be from a dubious battery cage in France. The tuna has not, as it says on the tin, been caught in Brittany, but in Senegal, where the workers stand by helplessly to see how the French merchants reap the profits. And the banana comes from a plantation in Ecuador, where the products are provided with labels with deceptive information about their origin.
In this documentary Moullet exposes the manipulations of world economy, in which developing countries always get the worst of it.