Usando o vinho como uma metáfora para a perda da individualidade no mundo moderno, Nossiter cria um filme fascinante que traz uma galeria de personagens interessantes em um relevante confronto em torno de suas visões de mundo diametralmente opostas.
Mondovino (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 51
Rotten:21
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Consensus: Informative but lengthy behind-the-scenes look at the politics of modern winemaking.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for brief pin-up nudity
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Mar 23, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Jonathan Nossiter, whose 2000 drama SIGNS & WONDERS was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and whose 1997 fiction film SUNDAY won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film... Jonathan Nossiter, whose 2000 drama SIGNS & WONDERS was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and whose 1997 fiction film SUNDAY won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, returns to the documentary format with MONDOVINO. Nossiter, who previously explored cinema verite in '90s RESIDENT ALIEN, about the iconoclastic Quentin Crisp, this time focuses his camera on the international wine trade, traveling to France, California, Italy, and New York, speaking with winemakers both great and small. While old-timer Aime Guibert, of tiny Mas de Daumas-Gassac, pronounces that wine must be made by a poet, high-powered consultant Michel Rolland circles the globe ensuring that wineries make lots of money. Nossiter meets the Mondavi family, one of the wine world's largest conglomerates; the de Montille family of Burgundy, in which a daughter has chosen not to work with her father and brother but instead with a competitor; the Staglins, who financed their own high-priced vineyard in the Napa Valley; and critics James Suckling and Robert Parker, whose words can make or break a vintage. Nossiter also visits with New York wine importer Neal Rosenthal, Christie's wine director Michael Broadbent, and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild CEOs Patrick Leon and Xavier de Eizaguirre to get even further perspectives. Although Nossiter set out merely to find the characters behind the wine industry, he ended up with a poignant look at some important issues, including deforestation, the corporation versus the independent company, and even communism. His bouncy handheld camera captured more than he had ever imagined. The result is an entertaining inside examination of a world very few people see, a fascinating exploration of wine and the families who produce it. [More]
Starring: Jonathan Nossiter, Michel Rolland, Aime Guibert, Robert Mondavi
Starring: Jonathan Nossiter, Michel Rolland, Aime Guibert, Robert Mondavi, Hubert De Montille, James Suckling, Neal Rosenthal, Robert M. Parker
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Producer: Jonathan Nossiter
Composer: Joe Hisaishi
Studio: ThinkFilm
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Reviews for Mondovino
Overly long and literally unfocused documentary about the wine industry.
[I]nteresting, and sometimes funny, but terribly edited and way too long.
At over two hours, this gets tedious... and no amount of 'micro-oxygenating' is going to make it better. I like my wine and my documentaries with a little less pretension.
Engaging doco that touches on fraudulent practices, politics, personalities and poisonous relations in a well paced affair that covers much ground
This look at globalization through rosé-tinted glasses is a poignant, whimsical magnum opus. . . . a vital, sobering nightcap to Gleaners and I and Sideways.
Mondovino is not a movie that swirls some wine around in a glass and admires the color and praises the bouquet and speaks of the wine's 'complexity' and uses the whole experience as some kind of rarefied metaphor for middle-aged angst.
the repetitious, belaboring 165 minutes make you want to scream, "Put a cork in it!"
The movie runs an exhausting 131 minutes and reveals nothing that couldn't better be expressed with a 10-page story in Vanity Fair.
At the core of this film is a great story and plenty of wine lessons worth learning -- even for heathen palates.
Nossiter makes the evolving wine business into a pointed metaphor for the entire globalized economy, and the opportunities and hazards that come with it.
At more than two hours, both Nossiter and the film go on too long, like a drunken party guest who doesn't know when to leave.
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