By Gabriela Malizia for WineSur.comCharlie Arturaola, protagonist of this film about Argentinian wine that was completely filmed in Mendoza, speaks about the new movie that promises to be a box-office hit. The international premiere will be in New York or Los Angeles.
“What Charlie likes most is to speak about the film,” says Pandora giving a knowing laugh. Pandora is Arturaola’s third wife, a nice American woman of Welsh origin who likes to joke about this peculiar sommelier’s passions, whose fictitious loss of palate and the subsequent pilgrimage through “caminos del vino” (wine roads) to recover it, are raw material of this movie.
Let’s remember that the film –directed by Nicolás Carrera- was awarded as one of the 5 main movies in Berlinale’s Culinary Division, which aroused great international interest. Moreover, it was awarded as the best movie of the year in the Film Festival of Mar del Plata.
Filming my life
Once again, Charlie Arturaola was invited to the Masters of Food and Wine. He describes himself as an international wine speaker who has traveled a lot around the wine world. Arturaola remembers that the idea was generated in a meeting with friends, during night talks with wine and his friend from Mendoza Ramiro Navarro, who is the cousin of the brothers Nicolás and Sebastián Carreras, the owners of Cactus Cine, the study where the movie was filmed.
“They wanted to film but Charlie did not have time to come; I could not stay 10 days in Mendoza. The most difficult was to find the time to film, during the months of harvest. Moreover, we should find Michel Rolland in those days,” he remembers referring to himself in third person.
Finally, they decided to begin and they started to film the movie in the Uco Valley in..Read Full Article
