He will take his truffle secrets to the grave. Later another man, Aurelio, who is an 84-year-old bachelor, is asked if he will reveal his “secret spots” before he dies. It’s a death-defying shot and a metaphor for an old hunter who clings to life. An old man clings to the hill clutching branches as he and the dog make their way horizontally. The film, which is replete with mist-shrouded, fairy-tale woods, opens with a shot of a dog loping across the side of a hill so steep it’s almost a cliff. In “The Truffle Hunters,” a delightful, arcadian documentary shot in Northern Italy, we meet several elderly Piedmontese men renowned for their skills in tracking down and digging up a delicacy that is the fungoid equivalent of gold: the Alba white truffle.
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