Angelo Gagliardi in The Truffle Hunters.
Image by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
The Truffle Hunters opens with a camera slowly zooming in on a wooded hill side, with trees twinged with autumn colors as bird sounds filled the air. As we get closer, we see a dog, then two, and finally a man struggling up the steep hill. Their quarry? Truffles.
The poetic, idyllic start sets the tone for The Truffle Hunters, an enchanting, unnarrated documentary directed and photographed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, about older traditional Italian men who have spent their long lives in the forests with their dogs, hunting this culinary delicacy, It is also about the high prices this this fragrant and delicious fungi commands and the growing hunger of the world’s elite for truffles. But it is mostly an immersive descent into a fairy-tale world, a vanishing...
Image by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
The Truffle Hunters opens with a camera slowly zooming in on a wooded hill side, with trees twinged with autumn colors as bird sounds filled the air. As we get closer, we see a dog, then two, and finally a man struggling up the steep hill. Their quarry? Truffles.
The poetic, idyllic start sets the tone for The Truffle Hunters, an enchanting, unnarrated documentary directed and photographed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, about older traditional Italian men who have spent their long lives in the forests with their dogs, hunting this culinary delicacy, It is also about the high prices this this fragrant and delicious fungi commands and the growing hunger of the world’s elite for truffles. But it is mostly an immersive descent into a fairy-tale world, a vanishing...
- 4/16/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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