Chasseurs de fruits

Creamy cherimoyas, delicate cloudberries, orange-coloured peanut-butter fruit, silky ice cream beans: The Fruits Hunters is practically the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory of fruit! This new documentary by Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) is an ambitious adaptation of Adam Gollner’s bestselling nonfiction book of the same title. It is a fantastic, epicurean quest for the planet’s exotic fruits. From Borneo to Hollywood, from Honduras to the monasteries of Umbria, the filmmaker follows these dogged fruit collectors (including actor Bill Pullman, among the most dogged of all) who dedicate their lives to tasting every possible variety of mango or seeking out figs like those seen in Renaissance paintings. A delectable odyssey that proves that monoculture was not practised in the Garden of Eden!