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March 28, 2005
Moore and less of Mondovino
Right-leaning City Journal, described by Wall Street Journal platitudinist Peggy Noonan as "the best magazine in America," hikes a leg in the general direction of Michael Moore, The Corporation and Mondovino: "Further, [Nossiter] brings before the camera the Italian and French winemakers who have gone over to the modernist side and asks them whether their families collaborated with the Germans (in the case of the French) or the Fascists (in the case of the Italians) during World War II, as if this were relevant to the wine debate. Throughout the movie, the modernists appear as collaborators (with American tastes, now) and the traditionalists as members of the resistance. When he interviews one of the modernists, Nossiter always starts the camera rolling as he approaches the vineyard in question, and shows himself being welcomed by secretaries, press representatives (indeed “press attaché” is one of the most common titles used in the film), or marketing functionaries. By contrast, he films... traditionalists toiling in their vineyards, as if they are all quaint, small-time men of the land... But some of the traditional winemakers are in fact major players--anything but defenseless little guys."
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