Truffle Hunters, The

[Opens April 9 at Landmark Theaters.] Gorgeous cinematography and scenery highlight this engaging, informative, fascinating, 84-minute documentary that focuses on three proud, secretive, octogenarian Italian truffle (aka tartufolio) hunters—Carlo Gonella, Sergio Cauda, and Aurelio Conterno—and their expertly trained truffle-sniffing canines in Piedmont, Italy, as they cope with the daily challenges of searching out and finding the illusive and aromatic Alba fungi (which cannot be cultivated and is not as abundant due to deforestation and climate change), dealing with greedy interlopers intruding in their territory and poisoning their dogs, and the increasingly competitive truffle market where a truffle garner thousand of euros, all the while dealing with their declining health.
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