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Darwin's Nightmare

Le cauchemar de Darwin (Darwin's Nightmare)

2004

Hubert Sauper

Documentary

7.6

6,990

Documentary Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Ernest Hardy LA Weekly	"For all its bleakness, Nightmare is a film that demands to be seen. In unflinching terms, it captures the hellish existence endured by the many so that the few may wallow in privilege."	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	"Somewhat haphazardly organized yet fascinatingly detailed and enriched by the candor and dignity of its shockingly deprived interview subjects"	POS
United States	Dana Stevens The New York Times	"Sauper has produced an extraordinary work of visual journalism, a richly illustrated report on a distant catastrophe that is also one of the central stories of our time"	POS
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"An uncompromising portrait of how global capitalism can exploit an area's resources to the point of near annihilation."	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"Sauper captures a world in which life and death are treated with equal practicality - and disregard. His camera is unflinching; your gaze may not be quite so steady."	POS
Canada	Jennie Punter The Globe and Mail	"Darwin's Nightmare, tragically, is not a dream, but rather a haunting, beautifully made reality check well worth waking up to"	POS

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