The skyrocketing prices of Bordeaux wines are an emblematic consequence of the curdling distribution of wealth worldwide: the product of a centuries-old tradition with a lovingly human dimension has been warped into a grotesque status signifier for capitalists to collect and hoard. David Roach and Warwick Ross’s documentary Red Obsession comes across as a bit of a luxury item itself: lavishly produced, with a profusion of helicopter shots, much globetrotting, and the booming star power of Russell Crowe as the film’s narrator, it doesn’t get its hands dirty with too much investigative reporting. ...
Roach and Ross attempt to wrest drama from the concept that by relying on Chinese markets the Bordeaux wineries risk losing their longstanding relationships elsewhere, but frankly who cares? Machinations and dirty laundry within the industry are left safely in their temperature-controlled cellars. Surely there must be a human dimension to this story. Something equivalent, with due proportion, to the fishermen of Lake Victoria in Darwin’s Nightmare who can’t afford to eat the fish they catch.
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