The Truffle Hunters (2020)
88%RT Audience Score: 78%
Awards & Nominations: 7 wins & 22 nominations
The Truffle Hunters explores a world most viewers will know nothing about — with delightfully savory results
The Truffle Hunters is a documentary that will make you want to pack your bags and move to Italy to become a truffle hunter yourself. The film captures the essence of a business that’s antithetical to modern-day supply and demand, and the eccentricity, humor, and doggedness of the hunters themselves. Plus, who wouldn’t want to spend their days wandering around the countryside with Fiona, Titina, and Birba? This dog-umentary is stupidly delightful and will warm your heart while making you crave some haute cuisine of white truffles.
Production Company(ies)
Warner Bros.,
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
Filming Location(s)
Piedmont, Italy
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for some strong language.
Year of Release
2021
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 24m
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Language(s):Italian
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Country of origin:United States, Greece, Italy
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Mar 5, 2021 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 17, 2021
Genre(s)
Documentary
Keyword(s)
documentary, truffle hunters, Italy, white Alba truffles, Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, Enrico Crippa, Carlo Gondola, Piero Botto, Sergio Cauda, Maria Cicciù, Aurelio Conterno, PG-13, Sony Pictures Classics, box office, $520.4K, budget, reviewed by Eric Kohn, Josh Kupecki, Philip De Semlyen, Deborah Ross, Jake Cunningham, Benji Wilson, Josh Parham, James Luxford, Marlow Stern, Joel Fisher, Jane Freebury, directed by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, produced by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, written by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, genre, food, nature, dogs, forests, Piedmont, Italy, rare, expensive, delicious, savory, supply and demand, original language, Italian, aspect ratio, flat (1.85:1), runtime, 1h 24m, distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, PG-13 (Some Strong Language), actor, director, producer
Worldwide gross: $1,504,318
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $1,636,106
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,470
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 178,419
US/Canada gross: NA
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend:
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Carlo Gondola – Self
Piero Botto –
Sergio Cauda –
Maria Cicciù –
Aurelio Conterno –
Director(s)
Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Writer(s)
NA
Producer(s)
Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Film Festivals
Sundance, Cannes, Telluride, Toronto
Awards & Nominations
7 wins & 22 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (127) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (123) | Rotten (4)
The movie falls short of creating a singular argument, and the effect of its poetic visuals drifts off by the end. Still, it excels at diving into the essence of a business that’s antithetical to modern-day supply and demand.
December 3, 2021 | Rating: B+
Eric Kohn
indieWire
TOP CRITIC
While I don’t have a strong desire to sample the haute cuisine of white truffles, I do have an intense compulsion to wander around the countryside with Fiona, Titina, and Birba. Especially Birba.
December 3, 2021
Josh Kupecki
Austin Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
You can imagine Bill Murray, Bob Balaban and co ageing up for a Wes Anderson version of this stupidly delightful dog-umentary about elderly truffle hunters roaming Italy’s misty, picture-box Piedmont.
December 3, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Philip De Semlyen
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
This is directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw and, visually, it is magnificent, with every scene framed like a gorgeous painting.
July 29, 2021
Deborah Ross
The Spectator
TOP CRITIC
Its gnarled, subterranean subject may be shrouded in a biblical halo, but The Truffle Hunters sublime focus on the natural world and both its flora and fauna inhabitants offers calming reassurance for the unwashed.
July 10, 2021 | Rating: 3/5
Jake Cunningham
Little White Lies
TOP CRITIC
Here is a documentary that is simple but contains multitudes.
July 10, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Benji Wilson
Daily Telegraph (UK)
TOP CRITIC
The imagery feels meticulously staged yet authentic to the lives of the people who inhabit them, and what’s on display is a textured and vibrant aesthetic.
June 8, 2022 | Rating: 7/10
Josh Parham
Next Best Picture
A portrait of humble beauty, as well as how almost anything can be destroyed by money.
March 3, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
James Luxford
City AM
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s documentary provides perhaps the most delightful movie-viewing experience of the year.
January 4, 2022
Marlow Stern
The Daily Beast
The Truffle Hunters may be a very niche documentary, but it will warm your heart and make you wonder how some can still enjoy the simple pleasures in life.
September 13, 2021
Joel Fisher
Battle Royale With Cheese
Exquisitely made documentary exploring the eccentricity, humour and doggedness in a disappearing breed of rural man as rare as the exotic fungi so highly prized by epicures
September 13, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Jane Freebury
The Canberra Times (Australia)
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s documentary is a delightful, thoughtful film, which slows time down to take us into the hunters’ mysterious world.
August 20, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
Paul Whitington
Irish Independent…
Plot
A group of men search for rare and expensive white Alba truffles in the forests of Piedmont, Italy in the documentary “The Truffle Hunters.”
Trivia
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