Mondovino in the open air

Posted on | August 22, 2005

Last Saturday the doors were open at Vingrau.

The goal? To permit the village inhabitants to discover the cellars of their village, cellars which strangely, most of them have never visited.

A good-natured day, a light lunch in the village square, once night fell, a free open air projection of Mondovino.

Well, despite the tiredness and the late hour, I must admit that I re-visited this film with some pleasure. Sure, I find it as artful and manipulating as ever. But it is indisputably a necessary and passsionate film, which puts on the carpet some real questions that a wine enthusiast needs to ask himself today.

Whilst looking again, I reminded myself that one aspect of the film really brought nothing, that where J Nossiter takes against fascism. 15 long minutes (too many) whilst they tried to disinter the behaviour of certain vignerons or enterprises during the Second World War or on the temptation of a form of rampant totalitarianism which, unfortunately, still troubles a part of Latin America.

Taking this out, one could have utilised the time to present other interviews, more useful and more pertinent. I await the TV version of 10 hours, which it seemed to me, had been announced.

Ah, de Montille and Guibert what personalities and what marvellous testimony for history-

Hervè Bizeul

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