Forks Over Knives vs On the Impossibility of an Homage

On the Impossibility of an Homage has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for Forks Over Knives). On the Impossibility of an Homage is the shorter watch at 19m compared with 1h 30m. Forks Over Knives is the older of the two (2011 against 2024). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Forks Over Knives posterForks Over Knives2011 VS On the Impossibility of an Homage posterOn the Impossibility of an Homage2024
Forks Over KnivesOn the Impossibility of an Homage
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year20112024
Length1h 30m19m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
CountryUnited States of AmericaGermany
DirectorLee FulkersonXandra Popescu
Main castLee Fulkerson, Matthew Lederman, Alona Pulde, T. Colin Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn Jr.Gabriela Durleci, Cristian Susu, Mirela Simniceanu, Ion Tugearu

Synopsis

Forks Over Knives

Examines the profound claim that most; if not all; of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled; or even reversed; by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Cameras follow "reality patients" who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole-foods, plant-based diet as the primary approach to…

On the Impossibility of an Homage

Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion used to be a a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we first discussed the possibility of a portrait, Ion was initially thrilled. He’d been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But during the filmmaking process Ion finds it hard to let go.

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