Mesilla Valley Film Society
at the Historic Fountain Theatre
2469 Calle de Guadalupe
Mesilla
575 524-8287
Nov 28-Dec 4
Bottle Shock
Dir: Randall Miller, (USA), 2008,
110 min, English/French/German
Bottle Shock tells a true and happy story: how the vintners of Napa Valley won the blind tasting known as the "Judgment of Paris" in 1976 and put their little piece of California paradise on the world wine stage for all time.
Alan Rickman plays Steven Spurrier, a Brit wine merchant in Paris, who is prevailed upon to sponsor, arrange and produce the judgment, which alas compels him to visit the Colonies, where his snobbery gets a comeuppance, Yank-style, and it's a nice thing to see.
The movie builds steadily toward its invocation of the tasting, where a gaggle of Frenchies who look like they've just condemned a couple of thousand of the rabble to Madame Guillotine sit at a table in a sunny courtyard and prepare to crush the rustic upstarts and their primitive grape juices. It's a great scene and the movie offers a lot of fun for those of us who like our wine cold, our Rickman tart, our pickups rusted out and our French people deeply unhappy…Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
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