Wild Life

Name: Wild Life
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 14, 2023
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Claudio Alvarado, Dago Guzman, Edgar Boyles, Jimmy Chin, Kristine Tompkins

2023

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Picturehouse | Release Date: April 14, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Claudio Alvarado, Dago Guzman, Edgar Boyles, Jimmy Chin, Kristine Tompkins, Michelle Bachelet, Rick Ridgeway, Susie Tompkins Buell, Timmy O'neill, Yvon Chouinard

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Available to stream on National Geographic Channel May 25 and Disney+ on May 26, 2023.

Summary: Wild Life follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic, decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she dedicated her life to protecting. After falling in love in mid-life, Kris and the outdoorsman and entrepreneur Doug Tompkins left behind the world of the massively successful outdoor brands they'd helped pioneer --Wild Life follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic, decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she dedicated her life to protecting. After falling in love in mid-life, Kris and the outdoorsman and entrepreneur Doug Tompkins left behind the world of the massively successful outdoor brands they'd helped pioneer -- Patagonia, The North Face, and Esprit -- and turned their attention to a visionary effort to create National Parks throughout Chile and Argentina. Wild Life chronicles the highs and lows of their journey to effect the largest private land donation in history.… Expand

Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Apr 21, 2023

The film is at once gently intimate and breathtakingly expansive in scope. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Mar 15, 2023

Throughout its trials and tribulations, Wild Life softly asks the question: what kind of life do you want to live? What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind? And these kinds of inspired actions certainly move the heart and soul and prove that the best of humanity has their heart in the right place at the very least. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Apr 14, 2023

While it has a personal touch of a love letter, this documentary is nonetheless the work of compassionate filmmakers who know any adventure when they see one. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Mar 16, 2023

It’s still beautiful to look at, but I most enjoyed Wild Life as a complicated procedural about land use (don’t expect to see that blurbed on a poster any time soon). Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Apr 25, 2023

While the altruistic nature of the Tompkins’ intentions finally swayed the hearts and minds of the country, a more thorough examination of this process (and all the lawyers involved) would have been welcomed. But this really isn’t a film that’s interested in that complexity. Read full review

Thomas Floyd

Apr 11, 2023

Wild Life is at its best when it focuses on Kris’s path toward renewed purpose after an unspeakable loss. By committing that journey to film, Vasarhelyi and Chin show off an invaluable skill: knowing when a story is worthy of preservation. Read full review

IndieWire Esther Zuckerman

Apr 13, 2023

Where Wild Life could have been a nuanced look into how wealth and ecology collide, instead it’s merely just a celebration of these rich people doing the “right thing” with their money. But who really pays? Read full review

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alanpotter17

May 30, 2023

Os caras querem nos fazer crer que a solução para os problemas ambientais partem de soluções individuais ligados a grandes empresários filantropos, é isso mesmo? O filme sequer discute o quanto a filantropia, em si, é um conceito problemático inerente ao próprio capitalismo.
"Ah mas vocêsOs caras querem nos fazer crer que a solução para os problemas ambientais partem de soluções individuais ligados a grandes empresários filantropos, é isso mesmo? O filme sequer discute o quanto a filantropia, em si, é um conceito problemático inerente ao próprio capitalismo.
"Ah mas vocês está sendo chato e esquerdopata". Ora, no próprio documentário fala que o empreendimento, por vezes, gerava prejuízo, e para citar um teórico liberal, "não existe almoço grátis". Portanto, em resumo, temos milionários estrangeiros invadindo terras sulamericanas após um período de acumulação de capital, dando uma de bonzinho e influenciando governos. Reconheço que ao menos fizeram algo mais útil do que a pura espoliação, mas isso é muito pouco comparado ao grau de exploração que muitas empresas submetem seus funcionários.
Aliás, apara ser justo todo esse debate, o documentário deveria mostrar a origem da riqueza dessas pessoas, suas atividades econômicas que lhe possibilitaram agir feito santos, discutir também a legislação ambiental e a questão de soberania de forma mais séria, porque não é possível que um estrangeiro venha com boas intenções querer uma área entre da Patagônia, como Argentina e Chile, e querer passar impunemente sob a égide de proteção ambiental, será que não percebem o risco para a segurança nacional desses países?
Tudo bem que eles podem estar bem intencionados, mas se a moda pega, teríamos novas invasões com a desculpa de que tudo seria em prol do meio ambiente ( o novo petróleo?).
Mas obviamente o documentário não discute seriamente relações internacionais, ao contrário, ainda conta a vida pessoal e o romance dos indivíduos na tentativa de criar um apelo mais sentimental ainda ao público.
Salvo pelas belíssimas tomadas e pela edição ágil, todo o discurso é um verdadeiro engodo.… Expand

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