Her leg, to be clear, grows back | Thiyagarajan, who hails from India, has made a name for herself with her environmental activism and reportage |
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Written and directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed; cinematographed by Roger Horrocks; edited by Pippa Ehrlich and Dan Schwalm; music by Kevin Smuts; produced by Craig Foster | He makes us humans look like heartless a-holes! Now, with Underwater Wild, the divers behind the film reveal a new vision of the sea, one full of wonder, new insights into marine biology, and life-changing teachings for even the most land-bound of us |
As a tale of man and nature, interspecies bonds and the miraculous intelligence of the octopus as a product of evolution, this film is meant to leave the viewer filled with wonder.
11A mysteriously wealthy documentary filmmaker has something of an emotional breakdown, realizes he's working too hard and neglecting his family, and so he quits, immediately takes up an intense and obsessive daily diving regimen, begins an emotional affair with an octopus, and has someone else film a documentary about him | When she chooses to let you into her world |
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Something about the film resonates deeply with both critics and the public | In natural history filmmaking, Foster found his calling |
He swims daily with the cephalopod, monitoring its movements and feedings, eventually interacting with it underwater.
From riding tiger sharks to swimming among great white sharks, Foster did it all | We open with a slow aerial tracking shot of an ethereally lit ocean shore |
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Sometimes we leave the house—heavens—without a phone | Coral reefs get a lot of attention, but kelp forests were fairly unknown before the film |
Filmed in 2010, "My Octopus Teacher" chronicles the year Craig Foster spent cultivating a unique bond with an extraordinary creature.
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