70
The Hollywood Reporter
Overall, film hits the right tone, and its brief but fascinating glimpses into Goodall's private life distinguishes it from the many TV docs on the lady.
Jane's Journey
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- Germany,
- Tanzania
- 2011
- · 107m
Director
Lorenz Knauer
Cast
Angelina Jolie,
Pierce Brosnan,
Jane Goodall,
Kofi Annan,
Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick,
Hugo van Lawick
Genre
Documentary
It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall, whose 45 year study of wild chimpanzees in Africa is legendary. In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. Featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection, Jane's Journey is an inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon.
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What are critics saying?
70
Variety by Ronnie Scheib
A worshipful tribute to the life and work of Jane Goodall.
60
The New York Times
Skimps on intellectual substance but skirts by on the lightly likable charm of its subject.
60
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
Though Lorenz Knauer's film is as thoughtful as his subject - with a break for interviews with Pierce Brosnan and Goodall's fellow UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie - the study of chimps is given short shrift.
50
Village Voice
Spectacularly photographed and journalistically lame, Jane's Journey blows a 105-minute kiss to Dr. Jane Goodall.
50
Slant Magazine by Joseph Jon Lanthier
Despite the fact that Goodall narrates the bulk of the material, there are scant details about her concrete contributions to animal and life science save for her observing of chimp-made tools.
40
Time Out
Any analysis of her philanthropy or character is traded for blind idol worship; only intermittent footage of the subject interacting with the natural environments she hopes to save (hippo habitats, arctic snowscapes) manages to sidestep bland reverence.
25
New York Post by Kyle Smith
Jane's Journey is an exceedingly graceful and dignified sleep aid.
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