From the Oscar-winning 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.
Reviews
The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
"Stunningly watchable"
08/11/2011
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
"A gripping documentary. The chimp comes out of it well. Homo sapiens, of course, is found wanting."
08/11/2011
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
"You may scent the feral breath of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, though homicide was, perhaps unfortunately, avoided."
08/12/2011
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The Independent on Sunday
Tim Walker
"This remains a melancholy film that shares with Rise... a grim assessment of the prospects for inter-species multiculturalism. If you're human (or if you share, say, 94 per cent of human DNA), it will break your heart."
29/08/2011
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The Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"What makes this film especially engrossing is that what happened between that chimp and the humans with whom he spent his life in intimate contact turns out to be only half the story that Marsh, who directed the electrifying "Man on Wire," has to tell."
29/08/2011
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Empire Magazine
Dan Jolin
"Despite the central subject, this is very much a human drama, and it’s most compelling for the way it shows how Nim formed and affected relationships with and among the non-chimp players. It’s tragic, though, that this particular ape’s misadventure on the Planet Of The Humans couldn’t have been fictional. "
29/08/2011
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The Evening Standard
Derek Malcolm
"Director James Marsh takes no sides but lets the humans speak for themselves, rum lot that they are. With the best of motives, they succeeded in behaving pretty badly. Not chimps but chumps, in fact."
08/12/2011
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The Sunday Express
Henry Fitzherbert
"James Marsh’s poignant film showcases the best and worst instincts of human nature and tells an extraordinary tale."
08/12/2011
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The Times
Wendy Ide
"Marsh’s film is clear-eyed, unsentimental and devastatingly powerful."
08/12/2011
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
"It is much more compelling in its study of a particular section of the human zoo: conceited American academics of the 1970s."
29/08/2011
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The Observer
Philip French
"It's a fascinating story, much more engaging than Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but rather irritatingly told."
29/08/2011
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The Daily Telegraph
Tim Robet
"As a cinema experience, Project Nim was never likely to reach the heights of Marsh’s Man on Wire, but the eccentricities of his story made it well worth telling."
08/11/2011
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