Breaking Bread

It's all shot very lovingly and you see all of the passion and the care that goes into these meals.

Whatever Breaking Bread lacks in artistic ambition, it makes up for with its good heart, sincere intentions, and, most importantly, all of those luscious images of food.

“Breaking Bread” delivers comfort food in every sense of the expression, from the mouthwatering Middle Eastern delicacies on view to the soul-nourishing displays of peacemaking compassion.

Makes a mouthwatering case for dinner table diplomacy.

Hawk has approached her first documentary as an unabashed passion project. Her enthusiasm, and general sense of joy, shine through clearly from start to finish.

A lot of the observations in “Breaking Bread” — the repeatedly offered notions that food is a common language or that politics has no place in the kitchen — seem trite and perhaps overly optimistic.

An upbeat, inspiring documentary.

The journey Hawk takes us on through food heritage as well as the history of the regionand how cuisine has blended to the point where its not always possible to assign a nationality to different dishesis remarkable.

Breaking Bread essentially spends 80 minutes claiming that “food is the universal language.” Ironically, it’s missing a diversity of flavor.

Leave your politics at home but bring your appetite to this warm, sincere documentary.