Trophy

Name: Trophy
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 8, 2017
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 80

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CNN Films | Release Date: September 8, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: Endangered African species like elephants, rhinos, and lions march closer to extinction each year. Their devastating decline is fueled by a global desire to consume and collect these majestic animals. Trophy investigates the powerhouse businesses of big game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation. Through the eyes of impassionedEndangered African species like elephants, rhinos, and lions march closer to extinction each year. Their devastating decline is fueled by a global desire to consume and collect these majestic animals. Trophy investigates the powerhouse businesses of big game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation. Through the eyes of impassioned individuals who drive these industries, filmmakers Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau grapple with the complex consequences of imposing economic value on animals. What are the ethical implications of treating animals as commodities? Do breeding, farming, and hunting offer some of the few remaining options to conserve these species before it's too late? [Sundance]… Expand

Director: Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Sep 8, 2017

Trophy strives to be kind and fair. But it is unmerciful in its exploration of the hunting business. Like a ruthless lawyer, it loves poking holes in arguments that appear rock-solid. Read full review

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IndieWire Jude Dry

Jan 25, 2017

Trophy tells a story as captivating as its images are beautiful. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jan 25, 2017

Trophy’s wealth of conflicting facts, figures, and arguments routinely force one to re-calibrate their feelings about the issues at hand. The result is a lament for both the animals at the center of so many crosshairs, and for a modern world seemingly only capable of saving lives by taking them. Read full review

Anthony Kaufman

Jan 25, 2017

Some issues, Trophy powerfully conveys, are bigger and broader than they initially appear. Read full review

Pat Padua

Sep 28, 2017

To its credit, Trophy neither shames its subjects nor offers an easy solution. Rather, it takes a reasoned and thought-provoking view — from many angles — of a problem for which there is, as Trophy argues, no quick or simple fix. Read full review

David Edelstein

Sep 7, 2017

Nothing in Trophy shakes out neatly, because everyone onscreen has his or her own set of values and every value is in conflict. The movie is richer in every way for its tangled sympathies. It will leave you angry, sick, and confused — but not smug. Never smug. Read full review

Dan Callahan

Jan 25, 2017

Saving endangered animals is not a matter of sentimentality and lifting one up above another. It involves facing hard facts and brokering some compromises, and Trophy makes us fully aware of this. Read full review

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