![]() Dweck and Kershaw’s resulting documentary The Truffle Hunters follows several of the oldest of these men - like Carlo, the impish 88-year-old who sneaks out a window to go truffling, and Aurelio, who is a spry 84. Even more beguiling, the pair soon heard about certain men who hunt in those woods for the elusive Alba truffle, secretive foragers who search with their dogs by night, not even telling their families where they go. The tiny, steep towns and foggy woods seemed to them to be a place out of time, an Italian Brigadoon dotted with people following the old ways like pressing their own wine and making their own clothes. When filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw first wandered into the Piedmont mountains, they thought they’d fallen into a fairytale kingdom. ![]() ![]() Photo: Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw/Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics. ![]()
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