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My Octopus Teacher

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South Africa · 2020
1h 24m
Director Philippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Starring Craig Foster, Tom Foster
Genre Documentary

This heartwarming documentary follows the unlikely interspecies friendship between filmmaker and diver Craig Foster and a wild octopus living in a South African kelp forest. After months of visiting her den and tracing her movements, he is finally allowed into her magical and mysterious world.

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Variety by Guy Lodge

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.

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LarsenOnFilm by Josh Larsen

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

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ABC News by Peter Travers

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.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

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.

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