{"id":10927,"date":"2021-12-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:56:14","slug":"the-truffle-hunters-directed-by-michael-dweck-and-gregory-kershaw-the-last-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=10927","title":{"rendered":"The Truffle Hunters \u2013 Directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Last Race)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2020, and was released on March 5, 2021, by Sony Pictures Classics. It received positive reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the loveliest films of the year,&nbsp;<em>The Truffle Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;is a documentary about the truffle trade in Northern Italy. Its stars? A bunch of older Italian men and their beloved dogs, who they treat like children. Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw offer gorgeously shot windows into the serious business of scouring the forests for these delicacies. It\u2019s not entirely sweet pups and their devoted owners, though. Without any extra context, Dweck and Kershaw introduce us to the traders who make the industry a vicious one with a lot of money on the line. Still, the indisputable star is Birba, a sweet pooch of unidentifiable breed whose elderly person feeds from his own dinner table and worries about leaving behind once he passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2020, and was released on March 5, 2021, by Sony Pictures Classics. It received positive reviews. One of the loveliest films of the year,&nbsp;The Truffle Hunters&nbsp;is a documentary about the truffle trade in Northern Italy. Its stars? A bunch of older Italian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18875,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions\/18875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}