The Elephant Queen

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The Elephant Queen

PG,

2019,

1h 36m,

Documentary/

Adventure/

Comedy/

Drama

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A journey of family, courage, and coming home; joining Athena, the majestic matriarch, as she leads her elephant herd across an unforgiving African landscape filled with vibrant wildlife.

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Informative, compassionate, and beautifully filmed, The Elephant Queen should satisfy nature documentary lovers of all ages.

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Alissa Wilkinson

Vox

Nov 1, 2019

2.5/5

The result is a nice story about elephants but not much more, making The Elephant Queen feel a bit like a squandered opportunity.

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Allison Keene

Paste Magazine

Oct 29, 2019

8/10

The Elephant Queen is messy, but it's still a worthwhile nature watch that educates viewers on how important elephants are to the biomes across which they traverse and why.

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David Ehrlich

IndieWire

Oct 18, 2019

B

A cute story about the circle of life.

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Fausto Ponce

Proceso

Jun 17, 2020

The documentary The Elephant Queen... is an emotional story about survival that shows us the wonderful mechanisms that operate in nature. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Louis Proyect

Counterpunch.org

Nov 5, 2019

Despite some Disney-style anthropomorphizing, this is a transcendent story of how African elephants cope with a drought. The subtitle might have been "Ecology of a Waterhole",

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Petrana Radulovic

Polygon

Nov 1, 2019

The best moments of The Elephant Queen come from when the elephants' actions on their own stir the heartstrings, complex emotions beaming off screen without anyone uttering a single word.

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Mark Deeble

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Victoria Stone

Director

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Mark Deeble

Writer

Victoria Stone

Producer

Lucinda Englehart

Producer

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A journey of family, courage, and coming home; joining Athena, the majestic matriarch, as she leads her elephant herd across an unforgiving African landscape filled with vibrant wildlife.

Director: Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone
Producer: Victoria Stone, Lucinda Englehart
Screenwriter: Mark Deeble
Distributor: Apple, A24
Production Co: Deeble & Stone
Rating: PG (Some Thematic Material)
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 18, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 4, 2019
Runtime: 1h 36m

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