Arts & Life WE WILL BE SERVING FRIED MATZAH DURING PASSOVER • Serving Lunch O Dinner • Open 7 Days • Carry-out D Catering Available At The Movies `Mondovino' Documentary filmmaker takes audiences on a journey into the hidden world of the families who control today's wine universe. c.eorge,. OILY TREE FAM I LY RESTAURANT We now offer carry-out service at our Northeast entrance for quick pickup 33080 Northwestern Highway West Bloomfield, MI Phone: 248-539-8300 • Fax: 248-539-8303 Summer Hours: Mon-Fri 11-10 • Sat 9-10 • Sun 9-9 S,E953,0 Nail , Open Uestau Featuring the finest gourmet dishes, deli trays and sandwiches in Detroit YOUR HOST: PETER BERISHAJ 30005 Orchard Lake Rd. Farmington Hills, MI Ph: 248-932-9999 Fax: 248-932 0353 HOURS Mon - Fri, Lunch & Dinner Sat & Sunday Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 4/14 2005 54 FOR PASSOVER Order your trays early Gefilte fish made from scratch $6' We will be serving matzah during the holiday 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,