My Octopus Teacher

Name: My Octopus Teacher
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 7, 2020
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Craig Foster, Tom Foster

2020

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 7, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Craig Foster, Tom Foster

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Named best documentary of 2020 at the 93rd Annual Academy Awards.

Summary: A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.

Director: James Reed and Pippa Ehrlich

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 19, 2021

Gorgeous and almost shockingly moving. Read full review

ABC Peter Travers

Apr 23, 2021

You’ll laugh and cry your eyes out as an emotionally bruised diver learns about life and loyalty from an eight-tentacled mollusk. This Oscar favorite and viral sensation is the year’s most unorthodox and unforgettable love story. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Mar 1, 2021

My Octopus Teacher is not the first documentary to plunge us into the otherworldly flora and fauna of Earth's oceans . . . But it is the first to chronicle a single sea creature's story from such a personal, openhearted perspective, revealing not just emotional connections but animal behaviors previously unknown to scientists. Read full review

Josh Larsen

Mar 25, 2021

You’re guaranteed to come away with new respect for the octopus as a species and astonishment at the intimate connection Foster experiences. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Dec 24, 2020

My Octopus Teacher never loses our goodwill: If we wind up wishing it had a little less man and a little more beast, that only serves its cause. Read full review

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Klose000000

Apr 21, 2021

Отличный фильм. Из всех фильмов Оскара 2021 произвел наибольшее впечатление.

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Panchogul

Apr 26, 2021

Este bellísimo documental me hizo sentir cariño por una criatura a la que siempre le he tenido algo de rechazo, felicidades por haber ganado el Oscar

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alejandro970

May 7, 2021

No debería ser una sorpresa el porque este documental fue declarado el mejor en su categoría. Las tomas submarinas son sorprendentes como bellas, lo suficiente para descubrir que el fauna marina no es tan peligrosa como lo pretende la ficción. A ver sin falta.

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Brent_Marchant

Apr 7, 2021

Who would have thought that we could learn anything meaningful from an undersea mollusk? Yet, if we're willing to devote the time and effort to studying the miracles of nature, there's no telling what we might glean from the experience, both about our subject and ourselves. Such is theWho would have thought that we could learn anything meaningful from an undersea mollusk? Yet, if we're willing to devote the time and effort to studying the miracles of nature, there's no telling what we might glean from the experience, both about our subject and ourselves. Such is the experience of filmmaker and oceanic explorer Craig Foster, who spent a year studying and interacting (in a very heartfelt and personal way) with an octopus in an underwater kelp forest off the coast of South Africa. Gorgeously filmed and warmly narrated, this moving documentary from directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed shows us a world seldom seen, with insights never imagined about a creature we know of but know virtually nothing about. This is truly a cinematic labor of love, one richly deserving of its Oscar and BAFTA nominations for best documentary feature.… Expand

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sirrong

Dec 4, 2020

It is astonishing that, as I write this 3 months after its release, there is only one review of this movie. It is shot beautifully and tells an incredibly engaging story.

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JamieVineyard

Dec 3, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A wild creature spending most of it’s time in the deep waters, and an octopus. This film talks in depth about a self obsessed grown ass man who falls in love with a few months old female. After feeling of having himself in his work, being discontent and disconnected with the world. he decides to leave his human family for a year, to spent all his quality time with this younger more flexible, colourful and very smart girl. The girl is shy at first but he manages to crack her shell. Over time we see the stalking gets more and more obsessive, the man wants to know everything about her, studies every move and want’s to think like her, become one with her. A disturbing codependence grows, long shots of staring in the nothing, show the depths of compulsion, close ups of the eyes display the neurosis inside. At one point in the story she manages to flee, only to be tracked down by the hunter in a weeks time. She gives in and wrap her arms around him, trying to strangle him, but he is too strong and would have all the evidence captured on camera, he films her every move. Even when she gets attacked by a shark, he believes her pain might make her more vulnerable and accepting to his affection. The whole film used many of the traits we see in documentary film making, but with a clever twist, we seem to be talking about the octopus, but later on we realise that the subject is really the study of the narcissistic personality disorder of the man. We hear the voice of the man as the narrator, putting thoughts in the animals head, when the girl finds someone else he gets upset and leaks a sex tape of her. We see the collapse of both characters when after having stalked her for 80% of her life, she finally finds peace in death, he will have to let her go. At the end he goes to hunt for her kids, and the cycle continues.… Expand

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Leadbasedtoyz

Apr 21, 2021

This moi e was dumb af...like how did it get such a high rating my god 5/10 if you have no taste at best.

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