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Mardi, Lalbenque...
Michel Cros
1993 - 26 min - Betacam SP - Couleur - France
Michel Cros
1993 - 26 min - Betacam SP - Couleur - France
Since the beginning of the century, every Tuesday throughout the winter, Lalbenque near Cahors has the biggest truffle market in the south-west. The sellers, truffle-growers of the Quercy, meet buyers come from all the rest of France and sometimes even from abroad.
Their respective days are marked by a series of ritual gestures which they make until the sacred time of the market. Ther it is a face-to-face encounter, almost a fight, in which each makes the best of his intelligence, liveliness, humour, common sense, obstination and experience to get the best price.