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Documentary trailer: Red ObsessionDocumentary trailer: Red Obsession
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Sam Roggeveen
Sam Roggeveen is Program Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace (Opens in new window), published by La Trobe University Press in 2023.
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It's nice to be able to flag an Australian film once in a while, and this one combines two modern Australian pre-occupations: China and wine. Red Obsession looks at the enormous appetite that China's wealthy elite have for fine French wine from the Bordeaux region. As the film-maker notes in this interview with the WSJ, China's Bordeaux bubble has recently burst.
Red Obsession is screening at the Sydney Film Festival in June. Looks like there are tickets left for the second of two screenings.
(H/t Sinocism.)
Sam Roggeveen
