Fresh
This haunting life story is an exquisite example of non-fiction filmmaking as full-bodied, emotionally complex drama.
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
Project Nim
The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.
2011 · 1h 33m · PG-13
Documentary
Directed by
James Marsh
Overview
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Director and cast
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98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Project Nim nimbly serves up a profoundly sad tale that raises as many thought-provoking questions as it answers.
Leah Rozen, TheWrap
Fresh
This many-faceted time capsule sheds little light, but buried inside it are vexing questions and the still-beating heart of a special creature.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
You end up fearing for the humans who contact him. At the same time, you feel his rage.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
You're left with the impression that, despite not being able to grasp basic human grammar, perhaps Nim was unwittingly conditioned into understanding the concept of love.
David Jenkins, Time Out
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