You don't have to be a wine lover to enjoy the movie. Red Obsession - Russell Crowe narrates Red Obsession, a documentary about the global Bordeaux phenomenon. I like to enjoy a decent wine. Now change is coming to Bordeaux, as China's voracious appetite for this rare wine pushes prices to stratospheric levels. I was expecting to see a cliché movie, but instead I was overwhelmed. 8 out of 10 found this helpful. They could have swapped Lafite for BMW's or iPhones, but the Lafite is an excellent symbol of fine old stuffy European tradition coming head on to the Chinese economic juggernaut. Money is everywhere. This is an Australian-produced doco, looking at the history of wines from Bordeaux. But that’s missing the point. Was this review helpful? The one quote I will always remember, that the Chinese have endured the cultural revolution which is like going to hell and coming back alive. Beer drinkers need not apply. It’s about wine in the same way that, say, Charles Ferguson’s brilliant corporate-criminal demolition jobWritten and directed by Warwick Ross and David Roach – they produced Filmed by two talented cinematographers, Lee Pulbrook and Steve Arnold, this is a gorgeous-looking piece; but more than that I think the point has less to do with the hackneyed aesthetic of 'capturing beauty’ than it is in creating a sense of other-worldliness in this sub-culture where a case of wine is bought and sold – unopened, mind you – for not thousands of dollars, but hundreds of thousands of dollars.Still, like all the best business yarns, it’s not entirely concerned with counting other people’s money. Chinese demand for France's finest wines has caused the price of Bordeaux to skyrocket. Was this review helpful? Read review. All in all, a fascinating film that really gets you to think. 1 out of 6 found this helpful. One suspects they will. Frederic Engerer, head of the prestigious Latour, makes a pass at being magnanimous.
"Red Obsession" makes the viewer appreciate the true artistry involved in wine making, and the asomatous beauty involved in wine tasting (ordering wine at the Olive Garden is not wine tasting.) This is not a trivial point. Synopsis; Program Info; Advertising. There are some amazing interviews that really show how much China has opened up to so many new things. But this is a double edged sword, as you will find out in the movie. I don't drink a Château Latour or a Château Lafite Rothschield simply because I can't afford them, but If I could, I believe I would once in a while delight myself with such an exquisite occupation. This new Australian feature documentary arrives as a film 'about wine’ but it isn’t really. 3 out of 11 found this helpful. watch free with ads. Slow at times, I did Enjoy the over all tale, and the lessons being taught are not heavy handed or really all that surprising. Mark as already seen. Indeed, in its own modest way, Where this theme of cultural ownership really takes hold is when the film explores the fact that Chinese vintner’s are spending multi-millions on making wine on the mainland, with imitation Chateaux and everything, as well as skills learnt in the best vineyards throughout Europe.The French vintners respond soberly to the prospect that one day the biggest wine makers – and perhaps the most prestigious – will be Chinese. All I say is just wait till India joins the games. Australia, China, France, United Kingdom, Hong Kong. Very fair to both sides, and this movie kept the dialog clear, and open. The film tells us that per capita there are more billionaires in China than in the USA. Is it taste, prestige, or investment that has driven the demand for the wines of Bordeaux? It also, in many ways, is much like the entrance of Americans into the world economy in the 20th century--when some folks were more interested in spending their money on some hot commodity instead of what is quality. Red Obsession was co-directed and co-written by David Roach and Warwick Ross. Something unprecedented is happening to the fine wine market and that something is China. It's about the transformation of China and it uses the dusty old traditional wineries of France to highlight just what is going on.
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Pinterest. Red Obsession is a 2013 Australian documentary film which collects interviews with winemakers and wine lovers across the world. However, I soon realized that in many ways the film isn't really about wines at all- -it's all a metaphor for the sudden and very dramatic rise in the Chinese economy and their subsequent buying power. This is a documentary for wine lovers. Shameful.
I recommend this to wine people, and world travelers alike, but there is much to be enjoyed by the average person as you get to see some sights from all over the world set in beautiful time lapsed film work. Was this review helpful? They have endured living like peasants for decades and now that they are not, they want to live it up like a sir.