Selected Films

Mondovino

Mondovino is an extraordinary documentary. Is self-indulgent, extravagant, and long views, but is likely to be indespensible, because the anatomy of a devastating conflict between the increasing local real production (the key word “French” terroir “) and globalization of the family who came from origin is forgotten and the emphasis is on quick satisfaction, forward flavor, taste and standardized.

The producer of this film is Jonathan Nossiter, polyglot, sommelier, happy Tipple, photographer, director and star interviewer in a documentary film? began as a quick, but wound up taking four years to do.

Nossiter appears as fluency in Italian as in French, and perhaps also in Spanish and Portuguese. It is often on the screen, addressing everyone in their native language, but the camera is its obsession with detail sometimes annoying, especially dogs. No matter, however, he makes the whole world open to him, including many of the major ‘actors’ in the international wine market, including those coming from the worst Nossiter in the documentary.

Even the dogs have come to respect. A dog is not the best metaphor for a true nature?

Obviously Nossiter likes Battista Columbu in Sardinia and Montilla Hubert de Volnay better? and it is obvious why. Are different types of men: Columbu is radiant and serene, Montilla querulous and biting.

But they are also what could be a world of flight - a wine-making which is authentic, personal, local, humane, which identifies the place of origin not brand, made with pride of craft not profit , or? what the Rollands Michel Mondavis and wants? for the whole world, no, throughout the universe domain of the market.

Both the camera openly dream of making wine on other planets and sell them all. Montilla comes across as more than the import Mondavis or any of the other edge and plutocrats. He has only a few hectares.

He makes the wine serious, nervous, not for all? like him - and of long duration. He is true to himself.

A major focus of Mondovino is like the California Mondavis? who has worked with over the first growth Bordeaux Mouton Rothchild expensive to produce a hybrid of California, Opus One, from the eighties - recently tried to seize a large part of Burgundy.

But a Communist mayor, took over the city of a Socialist and a darling of the deal was off. Becomes the Wine Spectator, as Nossiter shows, one of the manipulators, and manipulation is an essential aspect of globalization.

So too is Robert Parker, of Monkton, Maryland (to be interviewed and photographed background flatulence bulldogs). Parker has always been independent, but their ratings of wines (and taste) have come to exert too power on the world wine market. French wines are the ones who are terrified of him, and this has undermined its independence.

Parker, it has always been very friendly with Michel Rolland, a super-star French wine consultant (which will arrive at Mercedes limousine ride around), and that the kind of heady, forward, fast-developing wine you Parker like is also what encourages Rolland wine makers produce? and globalization not only means the elimination of small producers but mix the styles of wine.

Rolland, therefore, the exuberant charm is suspect, but so are Parker called authenticity and independence. Nossiter the richness of the image comes in the form that outlines the different wines and their families, sometimes bickering, members? Most all of Montilla, the stubborn, old and wise Feisty Hubert, his energetic son Etienne, who works for the powerful businessman, Boisset, and his daughter, Alix, in the personality to Hubert, who decided to leave because they want to Boisset mind - to put their stamp on the wines has overseen the development of.

Nossiter’s eye and ear can be devastating. The rich at the Staglin Family Napa Valley emerges as self congratulatory and self-deceiving new holes.

His decision to wine and other families “condescension, outright racism, and covert or past links with the fascists and the Nazis, including another of the persistent gradual revelations of the film. Nossiter as an interviewer said,” is not him on the subject of Berlusconi and Bush, but Berlusconi is just fine with the rich Italian wine-making