DAVID ATTENBOROUGH--A LIFE ON OUR PLANET
(a film review by Mark R. Leeper)

Sir David Attenborough is 94 years old and has been traveling--and exploring--for 66 years. This "witness statement" (his term) has a lot of beautiful and familiar nature photography--familiar because it uses archival footage from his films from those 66 years. Attenborough fits his whole career into this framework, tracing the disappearance of wilderness (and species) over that time. It has essentially a very downbeat message; even his suggestions at the end fail to provide much uplift. Released 10/04/20; available on Netflix streaming. Rating: high +2 (-4 to +4) [-mrl]

					Mark R. Leeper
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