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Mar 12, 2021 · With Piero Botto, Sergio Cauda, Maria Cicciù, Aurelio Conterno. Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation.
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- Documentary
- Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
- 2021-03-12
Mar 5, 2021 · When Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw decided to make a documentary about the secretive world of Italian truffles, they asked a local trattoria owner to introduce them to the restaurant’s supplier.
Mar 5, 2021 · It’s sometimes hard to stomach the Italio-Greek foodie doc “The Truffle Hunters,” a compelling but generally patronizing slice-of-life portrait of the title characters, a reclusive group of foragers, all in their 70s and 80s, who find and sell truffles from the forests of Piedmont, Italy.
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A handful of men search for rare, expensive and delicious white Alba truffles deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy.
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- Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
- PG-13
- Piero Botto
Mar 6, 2021 · NPR's Scott Simon speaks with directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw about their new documentary. The Truffle Hunters is about the men and dogs who sniff out Italy's rare white Alba...
Mar 4, 2021 · An enchanting documentary about men and their best friends combing the northern Italian forests for an unlikely delicacy. Aurelio Conterno and Birba in Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s ...
Mar 3, 2021 · Just as last year’s beekeeping beauty “Honeyland,” “The Truffle Hunters” is a richly allegorical documentary of a vanishing agricultural pastime. The truffles, weighed and sniffed at market, are delicacies. But the finer things rhapsodized here are not expensive rarities.
