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Jane

2017

Brett Morgen

Documentary, Self: Jane Goodall, Hugo Van Lawick, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick

7.4

686

Documentary Using a trove of unseen footage, the film tells the story of Jane Goodall's early explorations, focusing on her groundbreaking field work, her relationship with cameraman and husband Hugo van Lawick, and the chimpanzees that she studied.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Transcends the boundaries of both nature film and biography (...) This is a wondrous and moving account of a remarkable life that puts us right there with Goodall"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"'Jane' provides as much insight as we might hope for (...) [Morgen's] shaping (with co-editors Joe Besenkovsky and Will Zndaric) of the mostly preexisting material is astute"	POS
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Few films this year offer up such lush and beautiful formal components as 'Jane' (...) A film of deep emotional beauty"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"[It] is such an absorbing account of her experiences at a reserve in what is now Tanzania that you may not pause to think about how its imagery was captured."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"This is a mesmerizing documentary, filled with incredible footage of Goodall in the field and modern-day interviews, all set to the best score from Philip Glass in years."	POS
United States	Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times	"It has a sure grasp of an extraordinary life finding its convention-defying trajectory."	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"Who needs a Jane Goodall biopic when you have the remarkable, uncovered footage of 'Jane'?"	POS

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