The Truffle Hunters
First screened in June 2025
Director: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw. Documentary about northern Italian men who use time-honored methods and secret pathways to forage with their dogs for valuable truffles.
Photo © 2020 Beautiful Stories, © Sony Pictures Classics
In Brief:
Unsteady mix of reality and artifice propels odd story about rare resources, old customs, and unsettled worth.
VOR:
③
Might be gutsy in Italy to use the sanctified truffle as an emblem of the arbitrariness of value. Technique straddles bewteen nifty and messy.
Grade:
B–
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