{"id":612947,"date":"2026-09-11T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/612947\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:46:12","slug":"burgundy-review-michael-dweck-and-gregory-kershaws-wine-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/612947\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Burgundy’ Review: Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s Wine Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"

American documentary directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw have made delicately poetic ethnographies their filmmaking raison d\u2019\u00eatre. From the black-and-white Argentine rodeo culture portrait \u201cGaucho Gaucho<\/a>\u201d to trailing dogs chasing the elusive Alba truffle in Northern Italy in \u201cThe Truffle Hunters<\/a>,\u201d the filmmakers also serve as cinematographers on all their work. That means that while the requisites of making a v\u00e9rit\u00e9 documentary demand a certain distance, there\u2019s also a degree of lyrical blocking and framing suggestive of fiction storytellers.<\/p>\n

Their latest doc, the light-bodied \u201cBurgundy<\/a>,\u201d is even more of a vibe movie than their previous efforts, an airy, featherweight but surprisingly sweet collection of moments spent with a winemaking dynasty in the titular French region during a pivotal season. And a possible change of hands. Dweck and Kershaw spent two years embedded with the sommeliers, laborers, and other inhabitants of the region\u2019s most celebrated vineyards to capture a sense of ancient tradition dating back to the Romans. The film<\/a>\u2018s shuffle among the ensemble \u2014 including 80-something wine estate mogul Bertrand, his wanderlusting grandson Melchior, trusted worker Enzo, and the budding sommelier named C\u00e9leste whom Enzo is falling for \u2014 can be dizzying. <\/p>\n

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Some characters, like the handsome and erudite-beyond-his-years Enzo, merit more screen time than others. Also a great onscreen character is the wine critic Guillaume who, when not applying his faculties to the tannic particulars of a glass, is rehashing a recent split-up on the psychoanalytic couch. There\u2019s also a charmingly type-A ma\u00eetre d\u2019 who probably knows where the bodies are buried, if there are any, in these here provinces.<\/p>\n

Winemaking in a quaint country town is not without its rigid class hierarchies dating back to 160 years, for example, on the property Bertrand oversees after being handed it across several generations. He\u2019s ready to make Melchior his successor, but Bertrand\u2019s seasoned joie de vivre for wine production isn\u2019t exactly reciprocated by his grandson. C\u00e9leste, hailing from Paris and training under sommelier Eric, also feels out of her depth in terms of trying to make an imprint in such a storied, long-lived institution. Sure, she\u2019s a wine connoisseur \u2014 who who drinks wine regularly doesn\u2019t think they are? \u2014 but that\u2019s not necessarily an arbiter of taste.<\/p>\n

Audiences will most charm to the fast-blossoming romance between Enzo and C\u00e9leste, whom the filmmakers insert into a \u201cBonnie and Clyde\u201d-style, 8mm-shot fantasy sequence in Depression Era wears. Editor Pauline Gaillard makes a very wry match cut between a close-up on snails mating and then to our young lovers lying in each other\u2019s arms. These visual winks and clever in-jokes demonstrate how Dweck and Kershaw aren\u2019t averse to adding their own personality to the material. Enzo\u2019s proprietary ambitions are suddenly undermined by first love, ever an unexpected complication in the journey of coming of age that also gives \u201cBurgundy\u201d its zesty bite.<\/p>\n

\u201cBurgundy\u201d lacks the discovered-upon profundity of Dweck and Kershaw\u2019s previous efforts, which also took them on ethnographic exports to worlds probably far more unknown than the world of wine. The film, still, is well-balanced, with dryness of humor and plenty of sweetness across the ensemble and their dynamics \u2014 thankfully, without a sugary aftertaste. It\u2019ll certainly have you reaching for a glass of red. Or two. But you don\u2019t need to be wine-drunk to appreciate \u201cBurgundy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grade: B<\/p>\n

\u201cBurgundy\u201d premiered at the 2026 Venice Film Festival before playing Telluride. It is currently seeking U.S. distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American documentary directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw have made delicately poetic ethnographies their filmmaking raison d\u2019\u00eatre. From…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[204221,146,878,85,46,397,1530],"class_list":["post-612947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-burgundy","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}