A Gorilla Story

Matt Roush says...

Sir David Attenborough, the silky-voiced dean of nature TV, turns 100 in May, and he still has stories to tell. In a moving documentary directed by My Octopus Teacher‘s James Reed and produced by Life on Our Planet‘s Alastair Fothergill, Attenborough reflects on one of his most memorable animal encounters early in his remarkable career. He reads from his 1978 journals as archival footage depicts his first meeting with the baby gorilla Pablo in the Rwandan mountains as seen in his breakthrough documentary, 1979’s Life on Earth. Nearly 50 years later, filmmakers revisit the Silverbacks of Rwanda, filming over 250 days and several years to provide a fascinating update on Pablo’s descendants. Take it from Attenborough: “There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance of the gorilla than with any other animal I know.”

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