本纪录片取材于野生动物保护主义者蒂莫西·崔德威尔（Timothy Treadwell）1999～2003年在美国阿拉斯加州卡特迈国家公园及自然保护区所拍摄的素材。崔德威尔从1989年起致力于野生灰熊的研究和保护，并与朋友成立了“熊人协会”，每年夏天来到卡特迈独自野营，观察记录灰熊的生活习性，并义务对数千名学童进行讲解，呼吁社会打击偷猎，关注、保护灰熊。导演沃纳·赫尔佐格（Werner Herzog）探访了崔德威尔的父母和前女友，并对2003年10月崔德威尔及女友艾米·胡格纳德（Amie Huguenard） 之死的细节进行了细致采访描绘，试图在展示崔德威尔非凡经历的同时，回答究竟是什么使他选择远离人类放逐荒野，将生命献给灰熊。 本片获圣丹斯电影节纪录片评审团大奖提名及艾尔弗·斯隆奖，并获2005年独立精神奖、洛杉矶影评人协会、纽约影评人协会、美国国家影评人协会等多个协会的最佳纪录片奖。
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The film accompanies Magaye Niyang, a star of Touki-Bouki, a 1972 classic directed by her own uncle Djibril Diop. Following this path, we are witness of Niyang travel to a special screening of the film, which has a public release in his old town. Niyang seems detached and with a heavy longing from the past, and therefore, the film debris permeates everything with unescapable sorrow and fascination. Diop film is, first and foremost, a nostalgic travel through memory, time and recreation. It is also a watermark in contemporary experimental documentary, a very intimate portrait of a lost long journey through the past that isn’t returning anymore, a detachment of rejected fame, recognition and connection which is heavily grounded on a legacy that belongs to the past, and that connects directly to a country (Senegal) and its heritage, which is sometimes feel excruciating for the old ones (a testimony such as the taxi scene in the film, where the cab driver longs for changes, and claims that the old generation had done nothing for that). Mille Soleils (A Thousand Suns) and, in itself, Mati Diop’s crucial talent, should be a point of reference into what could easily be one of the most interesting proposals of hybrid documentary cinema which has come from France, and which deals with a strong African heritage. Since 35 Rhums, where she proved her actress talent, Diop seems like a true promise for the following years of cinema.
