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Dimanche, septembre 5th, 2010 |
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“Spain…On the Road Again” answers the question that did not need to be asked: “What if we made an ELEVEN (11) hour version of ‘Sideways’, except instead of having two guys driving around California wine country with two beautiful girls, one blonde and elegant one dark and lively, we instead had them drive around Spain?” Oh, and what if instead of it being poignant, funny, endearing, touching and frequently hilarious it was instead self-indulgent, meandering, contrived, aimless and annoying? Oh, and rather than them driving around in a charming old Saab junker while eating and drinking in merely very nice restaurants and wineries they instead drove around in a $100,000 Mercedes convertible while eating in only the very best restaurants? And, oh yeah, another difference, they could also endlessly express vague, meandering opinions that, while displaying a lot of experience with wealthy celeb status consumption, were witless and consistently betrayed a Cliff Notes knowledge of the world around them.
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Gwyneth Paltrow is rather touching in a vague, beautiful soccer mom kind of way, although the voyeurism of getting to see her in “real” life wears thin after a short while, and Mario Batali is just being Mario. Claudia Bassols, the Catalan actress pulled in to give Paltrow a gal pal on the trip, is charming and bravely bears her thankless task of escorting Mark Bittman, the food and wine writer from the New York Times. Bittman, the major flaw in the “casting” of this magnum homage to shallow self importance, may have thought that he was channeling a toxic know it all version of Thomas Haden Church’s character from “Sideways”. But mostly he brings to mind Woody Allen’s line from”Annie Hall” when, trapped behind a pontificating self-anointed film “expert” while waiting on line he says “What I wouldn’t give for a large sock with horse manure in it!” My feeling exactly. But instead all I had was the remote to turn off this interminable journey of wandering Hamptons-ites.
Bittman embodies the sort of top of the food chain, know it all, been everywhere and eaten everything, toxic, New York foodie snob behavior that is so insufferable to those who have made their lives outside the realm of Manhattan and Long Island. To every simple joy embraced by others he brings the sulphur if his self regard and baseball card collection of past facts, travels and meals. Whatever you are doing, whatever you are, whatever joy fills your life, it’s just another catalog entry for Bittman. He is a one man de-joying machine, relating everything he encounters to other similar catalog entries in his collection of past snobistic experiences. The program could have featured just Mario, who we know can cook and has an at least entertaining ego, with Paltrow, who is lovely and kind of endearing in her not terribly bright but aristocratic self absorption, and cut the whole thing to “just” three hours, mostly of cooking and foods, and it would have been a decent program. As it is, you are being asked to be bear being trapped with these people on a VERY long vacation, from which there is only one escape, the eject button.
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First of all, I’ve never written an Amazon review, and I just had to because this is my favorite “documentary” of all time. Granted, not all of you may enjoy food, wine, history and travel to the extent I do, but if you do, then you will really enjoy this DVD. Sure the 1 star guy has some valid points, but this is just supposed to be an enjoyable “Road Trip” through Spain in the yes of these 4 great, interesting and laughable people. Don’t take anything too seriously and you will enjoy yourself. Although some of the restaurants they went to were “world-class”, the focus is not the restaurant, but the food, wine, land and good company.
All in all I wish there were another 11 DVD’s to watch. It’s really a nice way to rewind on a Fri movie night.
Bravo Mario for putting this together. It’s really a treat. (I’d start watching the weight, we don’t want you to go the way of Chris Farley.)
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