A Whale of a Tale

November. 18,2017

Rating：

6.4

Genre：

Documentary

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Trailer Synopsis Cast

Entering the political fray of environmentalism versus tradition raging a round the issue of dolphin hunting in Taiji, Japan since the 2009 release of The Cove, Megumi Sasaki’s documentary is the finely balanced film essay the frayed topic has been waiting for. Instead of propping up images of animal slaughter or beleaguered fishermen, A Whale of a Tale focuses on points of contact and communication between the two sides, foreign activists devoting years to the cause and agricultural workers who have developed a first-name familiarity. Sasaki (Herb & Dorothy) collaborates with journalist Jay Alabaster to examine the historical and material conditions that contributed to local whaling practice and the pressures of globalism and localism that keeps this issue in ideological deadlock—at least for now. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

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Reviews

Dynamixor

2017/11/18

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Voxitype

2017/11/19

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Murphy Howard

2017/11/20

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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Fatma Suarez

2017/11/21

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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