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he's lived for extended periods in
France, England, Italy, Greece and
India, and his perspective is less
American than European.
It's also the epitome of secular
Judaism. Nossiter doesn't see himself
as a wandering Jew — although he
does jokingly call himself a Jewish out-
sider — but he was inspired to recon-
sider his identity in the process of
making Mondovino.
"I was struck when I was in
Burgundy, and doing some of the first
shooting, by the intense relationship
of parents and children to their sense
of place, to their terroir," Nossiter
recalls. "There were all the genera-
tional conflicts that we all know —
what do we inherit from our parents
and what do we give to our children?
— played out in a very concrete way.
That got me to thinking: 'I'm a globe-
trotting, deracinated Jew. Do I have a
terroir?'"
The French word means land and,
in a more profound sense, where one
comes from. The closest English trans-
lation, says Nossiter, is "somewhere-

ness.

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Despite his lack of geographical
roots, he had no problem answering
his own question.
"My terroir is what I've inherited
from my parents. My father definitely
felt that he inherited the Jewish notion
of an aspect of Jewish culture that is
essential — that is, an ethical relation-
ship to his past. And [an ethical rela-
tionship] to the notion of curiosity
and tolerance, which to him is an
essential part of Judaism."
Nossiter, 43, is a trained sommelier
as well as an accomplished dramatic
filmmaker who wrote and directed the
Sundance prizewinner Sunday, starring
David Suchet, and directed Charlotte
Rampling and Stellan Skarsgard in
Signs c Wonders. Above all, he's a con-
noisseur of creativity and original
thought.
"The moment in any field — from
dentistry to movies to wine to politics
— that we allow homogenization and
the stripping of our individuality to
take place, we're in terrible trouble,"
he asserts. 'And I think we're in terri-
ble trouble today." El

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p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4
p.m. Sunday, April 15-17, at the
Detroit Film Theatre in the
Detroit Institute of Arts.
$7.50/$6.50 DIA members, sen-
iors and students. (313) 833-
3237.

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