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	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: MOVIE REVIEW: Mondovino
		From there the documentary spirals wildly to both the deeply individual and personal—one woman’s decision to quit her job; a father’s disapproval of his profit-minded son—and the staggeringly broad—the rights of laborers; the aftermath of fascism; and the costs of globalization.
		Viewers of Mondovino, however, get the additional delicious, if mildly voyeuristic, pleasure of knowing that the film’s heroes, villains, and clowns are all real—so real, in fact, that one can find the fruits of their labor on the shelves of the nearest liquor store.
		Mondovino’s subjects are driven alternately by money, fame, winelust, and terroir, the film’s untranslatable but ubiquitous term meaning something between “soil” and “heartland.” The film itself is driven by its energetic camerawork, tantalizing leads, and a madcap soundtrack ranging from vintage French cabaret to the Kinks.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=506497 (515 words)

	Mondovino - Rotten Tomatoes
		Mondovino is rich and deep, with flavors and textures that reveal themselves from start to finish.
		Mondovino isn't as much fun to watch as Sideways, and after a while it begins to sound like a commercial for Mondavi, but love for the product still shines through.
		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-
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/mondovino (860 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Mondovino'
		Mondovino is a sprawling epic of a documentary.
		Whereas on the surface, Mondovino seems content to serve as an educational and impartial look at how wine gets from vine to table, a conflicting element runs subtly throughout the entire film.
		But Mondovino would do better to decide exactly what it wants to be: a look at the Mondavi efforts to water down the wine industry or a general behind-the-scenes picture of winemaking.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.30.05/mondovino-0513.html (914 words)

	OFFOFF film review MONDOVINO documentary movie by Jonathan Nossiter with Albiera Antinori, Allegra Antinori, Lodovico ...
		"Mondovino" looks deep into the craft and business of winemaking and comes up with the essential story of our age — a story about the ways that the giant foot of globalization crushes the juicy spirit of both wine and human beings.
		In "Mondovino," wine is a metaphor for life, all right — a way of life that's being stomped to a juicy pulp under the giant foot of global big business.
		The ultimate point of "Mondovino" is really a warning about all aspects of life — it's a very close look at how global business is steamrolling the individuality of what used to be an intensely personal craft.
	www.offoff.com /film/2005/mondovino.php (1821 words)

	EncycloWine: Encyclopedia for Wine Enthusiasts - Mondovino
		Mondovino was originally intended to be a two month affair as a break between feature projects upon the completion of Nossiter's film Signs and Wonders (2000).
		Mondovino was filmed with a hand held Sony PD-150 digital camcorder over the course of 4 years by Jonathan Nossiter with the assistance of Uruguayan filmmaker Juan Pittaluga and Caribbean photographer Stephanie Pommez for a budget around $400,000.
		Mondovino opened in France November 3, 2004 and received mostly positive reviews among film critics and lots of buzz (both positive and negative) among the French wine industry.
	www.encyclowine.org /index.php?title=Mondovino&redirect=no (893 words)

	Mondovino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Set to open in the US later this month, Mondovino is the controversial documentary produced by former New York Sommelier, Jonathan Nossiter, that takes to task among other things French winemakers who have been forced to abandon centuries old traditions to produce wines that are more appealing on the mass market.
		Mondovino moves across three continents to discover the impact globalization has had on the finest of the world's wines, not to mention the effects on local cultures and economies.
		In the film, Nossiter talks to growers, tasters, consultants, importers, and critics and examines how small local producers worldwide are either being bought up by larger conglomerates, or being pressured to conform to their methods of production.
	www.webscapades.com /blog/mondovino.htm (352 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review MONDOVINO documentary movie by Jonathan Nossiter with Albiera Antinori, Allegra Antinori, ...
		"Mondovino" looks deep into the craft and business of winemaking and comes up with the essential story of our age — a story about the ways that the giant foot of globalization crushes the juicy spirit of both wine and human beings.
		In "Mondovino," wine is a metaphor for life, all right — a way of life that's being stomped to a juicy pulp under the giant foot of global big business.
		The ultimate point of "Mondovino" is really a warning about all aspects of life — it's a very close look at how global business is steamrolling the individuality of what used to be an intensely personal craft.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2005/mondovino.php (1821 words)

	Mondovino \| MTV MOVIES
		Mondovino offers a witty but well-informed look at how business concerns and the homogenization of tastes around the world are changing the way wine is being made.
		Nossiter deals with the personalities of his subjects as much as their status in the wine business, and he frequently introduces us to the pets of his interview subjects.
		Mondovino was screened in competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/256196/moviemain.jhtml (318 words)

	Mondovino (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		from Austin, TX Mondovino is a dense, rich, and complex documentary on the power struggles and major players of the "wine world" elite.
		Mondovino also shows the dark histories of many of the world's most powerful wine producers.
		Mondovino carefully weaves together the web of land, power, politics, and wine.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0411674 (565 words)

	village voice > film > by Mark Peranson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Even though he must be bloated from all the wine talk (and editing: Mondovino will appear on DVD as a 10-part series), Nossiter dives into the issues intertwined in his film: "whore wines," cinema, and politics (don't get him started on Bush or Berlusconi).
		In Mondovino, Nossiter puts his theory to the test by creating "a mise-en-scène that's searching to establish a relation between the physical context of any given scene and the subject's immediate experience." His handheld camerawork might infuriate, but this is a case where formal values are clear adaptations of ideological concerns.
		The movement in Mondovino is part of the vitality of the life.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0512,peranson,62293,20.html (1175 words)

	Mondovino by J. Nossiter: Documentary on the impact of Globalization on the world's wine regions
		Mondovino by J. Nossiter: Documentary on the impact of Globalization on the world's wine regions
		Mondovino weaves together the family sagas of billionaire Napa Valley power brokers, the rivalry of two aristocratic Florentine dynasties and the fight of three generations of a Burgundian family to preserve their few acres of land.
		Mondovino is very much worth to be seen.
	www.winemega.com /art_mondovino.htm (730 words)

	A Fahrenheit 9/11 for oenophiles. - By Mike Steinberger - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mondovino makes its U.S. debut March 23, and having finally seen the movie myself, I now understand why they were so smitten.
		Mondovino is a screed against globalization; Nossiter rails against the pernicious influence of conglomerates and branding.
		Mondovino's heroes are Aime Guibert, the proprietor of the renowned Mas de Daumas Gassac in the Languedoc region of France, and the acclaimed Burgundian producer Hubert de Montille.
	www.slate.com /id/2114563 (1206 words)

	Mondovino
		But Mondovino is most compelling when Nossiter allows the complexity of sustaining a modern winery to emerge.
		The push and pull within the de Montille family is an apt reflection of the tensions that exist when a deep and innate love for making wine collides with the forces of expansion and globalization.
		And despite it’s moments of proselytizing, Mondovino provides an unparalleled glimpse into the politics and culture of modern-day winemaking.
	www.motherjones.com /arts/film/2005/04/mondovino.html (770 words)

	Mondovino director launches savage counter attack on Parker website. - decanter.com - the route to all good wine
		The director of Mondovino has accused Robert Parker's partner Pierre-Antoine Rovani of cynicism, McCarthyism, Orwellianism and all-round bad faith in an 8-page open letter to Parker.
		Nossiter refuses to countenance widely repeated criticism that Mondovino is an anti-globalisation polemic.
		Mondovino has provoked an unprecedented level of debate, with eRobertParker.com's message board merely the tip of the iceberg.
	www.decanter.com /news/63132.html (461 words)

	THINKFilm to Uncork Jonathan Nossiter's "Mondovino"
		Winemaker Hubert De Montille with "Mondovino" director Jonathan Nossiter at the film's press conference in Cannes.
		In addition to previously directing the narrative films "Signs and Wonders" and the Sundance grand jury prize winner "Sunday," Nossiter is also a sommelier, wine consultant, and wine writer.
		"As its title makes clear, 'Mondovino' gives us a privileged look at the world of wine, and Jonathan is not only uniquely qualified to take us there, he has a fabulous time doing so," said THINKFilm theatrical division head Mark Urman in a prepared statement.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_040608mondovino.html (311 words)

	Cannes Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Across three continents, "MONDOVINO" weaves together the family sagas of billionaire Napa Valley power brokers, the rivalry of two aristocratic Florentine dynasties and the fight of three generations of a Burgundian family to preserve their few acres of land.
		Moving and romantic, Mondovino becomes a homage to the drink that Nossiter believes is “the sole guardian of Western civilisation.”
		For the presentation of Jonathan Nossiter's documentary Mondovino, now screening in competition, the director was joined by Hubert de Montille (one of the wine producers in his film) for today's press conference.
	www.festival-cannes.fr /films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4183104 (896 words)

	Mondovino movie review, In Film Australia
		One of the film’s chief virtues is the intimacy of its interviews, and the way in which it places you fully within its locations, and these virtues can be directly attributed to the use of the digital cameras.
		Many of the locations in Mondovino are quite beautiful – wineries are inherently photogenic, and many are in charming regions of France – and the photography gives the film the feel of lived experience, rather than the more conventionally picturesque but distancing effect that picture-postcard 35mm photography tends to bring.
		Like last year’s The Corporation, Mondovino will be best served by television and other home formats that allow it to be absorbed in several sittings (and indeed, a ten-part television version is to follow).
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/mondovino.htm (1455 words)

	www.european-films.net ¦ Mondovino (2004) ¦ film review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		beer for the masses, ‘Mondovino’ can be compared to a good glass of wine.
		‘Mondovino’, as it shows how the Mondavi family (note the similarity of their
		The footage of ‘Mondovino –the movie’ is extracted from a ten hour mini-series
	www.europeanfilms.net /reviews/2004/mondovino.html (603 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Mondovino
		This not-quite paradox fuels Jonathan Nossiter's engaging Mondovino, an impassioned polemic and a veritable lightning rod for controversy since its Cannes premiere.
		The operative buzzword in Mondovino is terroir, or territory, a term denoting that the wine's flavor is a product of the territory in which it was cultivated.
		Mondovino is so fast-paced and compactly edited (Nossiter plans to turn his footage into a 10-hour miniseries) that it becomes easy to view the character juxtapositions as evidence of a fl-and-white battle zone.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1507 (499 words)

	eG Forums -> Mondovino
		Jonathan Nossiter's new documentary, Mondovino, which premiered this week at the Cannes Film Festival, leans that way.
		Across three continents, Mondovino weaves together the family sagas of billionaire Napa Valley power brokers, the rivalry of two aristocratic Florentine dynasties and the fight of three generations of a Burgundian family to preserve their few acres of land.
		Both a film maker and a wine expert, Nossiter is uniquely qualified to tell this epic tale, and through the prism of wine he entertainingly explores the problems of globalisation, the dominance of big business and tensions in the transatlantic relationship.
	forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=43017 (4234 words)

	Mondovino
		But it would be difficult for me to imagine anything topping the 2004 "Mondovino" in terms of dramatic and political depth.
		Taking as its theme the power of Mondavi and other huge wine multinationals to run roughshod over much smaller but superior vineries, it would not evoke the same sense of outrage as films devoted to the plight of landless peasants or sweatshop workers.
		But the most repellent figure has to be Robert Parker, the powerful wine critic who has spearheaded the homogenizing process decried by the film.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/Mondovino.htm (1048 words)

	Welcome to the Mondovino homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mondovino is a new wine tasting society for the wine lovers of Manchester!
		Mondovino aims to bring friends together to explore new wines and unravel the mysteries of the grape.
		Mondovino is a trading name of Blue Frog Productions LTD, Company Registration No.5757786.
	www.mondovino.co.uk (215 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 'Mondovino' drags on for too long
		It's clear that "Mondovino" filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter is intoxicated with the subject of his documentary: wine and winemaking.
		"Mondovino" attempts to explain the significance of winemaking through the words and experiences of generations of European and American wineries.
		"Mondovino" is rated PG-13 for occasional use of profanity (mostly religiously based), closeups of nude calendar photos, use of some ethnic slurs and racial epithets, and some vulgarity (animal flatulence).
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600143633,00.html (396 words)

	'Mondovino': A Fine Vintage From the Grapes of Wrath
		And, as "Mondovino" travels from France to the Napa Valley to Italy to South America, what starts out as a relatively innocuous fight between wine lovers begins to take on surprisingly high political stakes, as the two sides shape up into a sort of microcosm of McCapitalism and its discontents.
		For a movie that is essentially composed of shots of talking heads, "Mondovino" does a good job of evoking its subjects' own terroir, whether they're the landed gentry of an ancient aristocracy or an Argentine peasant humbly offering the filmmaker a bottle of his handmade vintage.
		Mondovino (135 minutes, in French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Spanish with subtitles, at Landmark's E Street) is rated PG-13 for brief frontal nudity on a pinup calendar.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/12/AR2005051201641.html (746 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mondovino: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mondovino is a very interesting film, whether you want to call it a documentary or an opinion piece.
		It probably deserves *** for ingenuity and provocativeness, ** for effort and timeliness, but * or ** for fact-checking or balanced coverage of the reasons why winemakers and the wine industry in parts of Europe are in trouble.
		What has happened since then is that the local/regional consumption has dropped considerably, while new generations of consumers are more demanding when it comes to quality, and picky as well as trend-influenced when it comes to which styles of wine they like.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Mondovino/dp/B0009G1IPQ (1678 words)

	Mondovino - Reviews - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		A story of taste and tradition, vines and values, Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovino is a cross-continental exploration of wine as metaphor and monopoly.
		Issues, politics and personalities are at the forefront of this sprawling documentary that has an assertive thesis about individuality and conformity, an argument about the meaning of grapes, gripes and globalisation.
		Without explicitly arguing the case in person, he presents the thesis that wine, rather than being derived from the "terroir", the soil from which it originates, is increasingly being expected to reflect the latest marketing trend.
	www.theage.com.au /news/reviews/mondovino/2005/09/14/1126377366869.html (662 words)

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