2012 · documentary · survival
Chimpanzee
Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield1h 18m2012
A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests. Through Oscar, a little chimpanzee, we discover learning about life in the heart of the African tropical forest and follow his first steps in this world with humor, emotion and anguish. Following a tragedy, he finds himself separated from his mother and left alone to face the hostility of the jungle. Until he is picked up by an older chimpanzee, who will take him under her protection.
Our read: Chimpanzee (2012) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded documentary · survival entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle documentary / survival, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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