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A stirring double portrait.
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4/29/2021
Alex Parkinson s documentary is a first-person account of an extraordinary bond between a famous chimpanzee and the young caretaker who befriended her in the second half of her life.
There s no such thing as a human chimp, but half a century ago a chimpanzee s conditioning by her human parents famously blurred the lines. Lucy Temerlin lived in the suburbs with a psychologist and his wife, went for rides with them in the station wagon, and enjoyed the occasional gin and tonic. After a point, though that point being puberty she spent most of her time in a backyard chain-link cage because her size and aggressiveness were wreaking havoc on this nuclear family s domestic bliss.