The Truffle Hunters
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Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation.
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- Enrico Crippa
- Carlo Gondola
- Piero Botto
- Sergio Cauda
- Maria Cicciù
- Aurelio Conterno
- Gianfranco Curti
- Angelo Gagliardi
- Egidio Gagliardi
- Carlo Gonella
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Metacritic
Aug 23, 2021
By focusing on the old men and their dogs who spend their time in the woods of Northern Italy searching for the prized fungus, Dweck and Kershaw operate on a level of gentle, removed observation.
Barry Hertz
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Mar 4, 2021
Just as last year’s beekeeping beauty Honeyland, The Truffle Hunters is a richly allegorical documentary of a vanishing agricultural pastime.
Jake Coyle
The Associated Press
Mar 3, 2021
The Truffle Hunters takes us to a part of the world where time appears to have stood still.
Bob Strauss
San Francisco Chronicle
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