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March 19, 21, 23, 26-28
Director: Jonathan Nossiter // France 2006 // 10 x 60 minutes // In French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Greek with English subtitles
From the palaces of Florentine princes through the ersatz temples of Californian power brokers to peasants in the Andean foothills, the epic Mondovino: The Series is a comic and deeply intimate indictment of the globalization of the wine industry.
Jonathan Nossiter's ten-hour version of the controversial Mondovino (VIFF 2005) is a bedazzling tapestry of ten autonomous stories, each with its own complete narrative cycle. Taken together, they create one vast, politically trenchant serial. The aesthetic reflects the fluidity and restless shooting style that Nossiter explored during filming, and answers the challenge of material that cries out for new forms to match new digital technologies.
Even if you don't know the difference between a Sauvignon Blanc and a post-modern Super Tuscan, Jonathan Nossiter's documentary provides an entertaining examination of the impact of globalization upon the international wine industry.-BBC
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Episode #2: Magic Potion
Mar 19, 7:00 / Mar 26, 7:00
Once upon a time in the fabled region of Burgundy, there lived a family called the Montilles. An intimate, tender and hilariously candid view of a fractious French family and their pursuit of the elixir known as "terroir."
Episode #3: Rome Was Not Built in a Day
Mar 19, 9:30 / Mar 26, 9:30
Napa is to wine, what Hollywood is to movies. But who are they who rule our tastes? And who does their dirty work? A black comedy about the "studio chiefs" of the wine world, their families and their employees.
Episode #4: Pax Panoramix
Mar 19, 9:30 / Mar 26, 9:30
The global battle for the defense of nature creates improbable bedfellows: from the Pyrenees, where Yvonne Hégoburu fights to establish an organic vineyard in memory of her husband, to quintessential New York radical Neal Rosenthal, to the least likely rebel imaginable, Aubert de Villaine of Romanée Conti.
Episode #5: The Appian Way
Mar 21, 7:15 / Mar 27, 7:00
Is he the George Bush of wine? From his arch-kitsch suburban home in Monkton, Maryland, Robert Parker singlehandedly dictates the fate of much of the wine world. Up close and personal with the man and his farting bulldog named after J. Edgar Hoover.
Episode #6: Quo Vademus
Mar 21, 7:15 / Mar 27, 7:00
If wine is unique as a mirror of human complexity, the only product that is capable of improving over a lifespan, then what do we look for when we wish not to grow old? Competing versions of the fountain of youth, from California to Paris. |
Episode #7: All Roads Lead to Rome
Mar 21, 9:45 / Mar 27, 9:30
If you could psychoanalyze a grape, how would it respond? Jean-Louis Laplanche, world-renowned psychiatrist and Freudian scholar also happens to be the owner of the Chateau de Pommard. Meanwhile in the Napa valley, there's a winery created by a husband and wife psychiatric team. Let the games begin.
Episode #8: When in Rome...
Mar 21, 9:45 / Mar 27, 9:30
For a thousand years, the Antinori and Frescobaldi families have dominated the political and economic life of Tuscany. They're now concentrating resources and prestige in wine, but beneath the surface, there are tensions and conflicts worthy of a 19th century opera. Or a Mafia turf fight.
Episode #9: Et tu Brute...
Mar 23, 7:00 / Mar 28, 7:00
The Tuscan Antinori-Frescobaldi saga continues: betrayal, redemption, globalization, Italian-style. These two families fight it out for the American Mondavi family hand. But who's the real winner and who's the real loser?
Episode #10: Veni, vidi, vendidi
(I Came, I Saw, I Sold)
Mar 23, 7:00 / Mar 28, 7:00
Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina: the New World...but age-old conflicts. What's at stake for indigenous people and for foreign investors? How do the European-American conflicts play out in South America?
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