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Title: Camera work makes it hard to watch
Review: Mondovino was interesting to me as a wine buff, but as a television professional, it was hard to watch. I know that cinema vérite films are traditionally shot hand-held in an informal style, but this film was shot so poorly that you could actually get motion sickness watching it on a large screen. It literally looks like it was shot by a child with a short attention span. The shots are filled with gratuitous zooms, shaky long shots, and close-ups that are too close. The quality of the photography seriously compromised my enjoyment of the subject matter and to me makes the film seem like an amateur effort.
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