Keswick Film Festival

Friday 26th February 9:45 PM - Alhambra

The Cove

Director: Louie Psihoyos Country: USA
Cert: 12A Year: 2009 Length: 92 mins
2010 Festival
The Cove

Audience Reaction

Score: 63.89% Attendance: 18

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Richard O'Barry is a kind of gamekeeper turned poacher. In his youth he caught and trained dolphins for the Flipper television series. Ever since he's been trying to make amends. Here Psihoyos assembles a crew to follow O'Barry to a remote cove in Japan where dolphins are trapped and killed for meat on an industrial scale.

Thanks to Vertigo

Critics

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This is a first-rate heist movie in which the good guys are the gang and the bad guys the supposed honest citizens upholding law and order.
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Philip French, The Observer



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Documentary filmmaking at its most exciting and purposeful.
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Peter Travers, Rolling Stone