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who control today's wine universe.
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Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter traveled around the world for 3 1/2 years to make
"Mondovino."
MICHAEL FOX
Special to the Jewish News
ou certainly don't have to be
Jewish to enjoy Mondovino,
Jonathan Nossiter's globe-span-
ning yet intimate documentary about
the modern business and art of wine
that will be shown this weekend at the
Detroit Film Theatre. But Jewish
moviegoers will be especially attuned
to — and gratified by — a few refer-
ences that the filmmaker slips in along
the way.
During his conversation with two
haughty honchos of the mammoth
Mouton-Rothschild winery, Nossiter
casually inquires about the firm's
wartime dealings with the Nazis. Then
he asks what happened to the Jewish
Baron Rothschild (who was in
England with the Free French, we
learn) and the non-Jewish Baroness
(who fared much worse, at Dachau).
Nossiter's disarming approach is the
opposite of that of Marcel Ophuls,
who angrily challenged interviewees in
his blistering masterpiece Hotel
Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus
Barbie. But it is no less effective, even
if Nossiter's aim is to expose the ten-
drils of creeping globalization in the
wine business rather than the hidden
career of a mass murderer.
In another sequence, the head of a
family of Argentine winemakers, over
a relaxed lunch with Nossiter on their
veranda, makes an informal and seem-
ingly extraneous assertion that Juan
Peron was not anti-Semitic.
But nothing was extraneous to
Nossiter, he conceded during a recent
interview, as he journeyed from coun-
try to country over 3 1/2 half years
shooting the film.
"I was always interested to see the
cultural and political overtones," he
explains, "whether it was the power
brokers in Italy proud of their Fascist
roots, or a power broker in Bordeaux
essentially unapologetic about his Nazi
collaboration or marketing whiz kids
today thrilled to rip us off and manip-
ulate us with great marketing scams."
Filmmaker/Sommelier
The well-educated son of a journalist,
Nossiter learned at an early age to
probe beneath the surface.
Although born in the United States,