France • d: Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw • NR • 88m
In THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw immersed us in the sensual, slow-paced world of Italian foragers; the macho, high-spirited GAUCHO GAUCHO provided a wry and personable look at Argentinean cowboys. Now, it’s our good fortune to be led by Dweck and Kershaw into another earthy fantasia—the legendary French wine-making region, known as a world capital of pleasure. We meet a memorable gallery of Burgundy characters: a landowner obsessed with his family’s legacy, an enthusiastic young worker hoping to start his own vineyard, a female apprentice sommelier learning how to talk about wine and a divorced wine critic going on many hapless dates. The breathtaking, formalist compositions offer us a vivid, slightly absurdist celebration of a group of dreamers, who earn both our love and a fair bit of teasing. Underneath the fun, there’s social commentary: wherever we go, class and money still hold the upper hand. –Larry Gross
About the Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival has been, for the last 50 years, a celebration of the art of film: honoring the great masters of the cinema, discovering the rare and unknown, bringing new works by the world’s greatest directors and the latest in American independent film to a small mountain town in Colorado. The New York Times called Telluride “the smallest, most original, and most stimulating of the major festivals,” while Entertainment Tonight simply said it was “the world’s best festival.”
About Telluride By The Sea
The Music Hall and the Telluride Film Festival collaborate on an exclusive presentation of six new features, brought directly from their Colorado debuts. This unique and intimate Portsmouth event treats audience members from across the Northeast to an exclusive peek into the Telluride experience—packing one September weekend in Portsmouth with the latest international cinema, private parties, great music, delicious food, and inspired conversations with other cinephiles of all ages, tastes, and backgrounds.
Schedule
Fri., 9/25 • 7pm • THE DEBUT
Sat., 9/26 • 1pm • FATHERLAND
Sat., 9/26 • 3:30pm • TENDER LOVING CARE
Sat., 9/26 • 7pm • INK
Sun., 9/27 • 12pm • WILD HORSE NINE
Sun., 9/27 • 3pm • ELSINORE
Sun., 9/27 • 6:30pm • BURGUNDY
