Nenette NYT Critics' Pick
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A scene from “Nénette,” a film about an orangutan at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
A Meditation on Captivity, Featuring an Orangutan
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: December 21, 2010
A child’s voice whispers “Nénette!,” and immediately we are in the patient and curious world of the French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert. Best known in the United States for “To Be and to Have” — his captivating 2002 portrait of a rural schoolteacher — Mr. Philibert has switched his gaze to a primate with rather less agency: a 40-year-old female orangutan in the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. More
