BBCNEWS The Film Review June 5, 2021 22:54:00
Creatures without becoming acutely aware of their consciousness, and thus inevitably questioning what we know will happen to them. russian director viktor kossakovsky, who became a vegetarian after befriending a pig as a child that was then served up as pork cutlets, says he wanted to make a film about animals as living, feeling beings in their own right, a task he says was doubly difficult when dealing with farm livestock rather than dolphins, elephants or pandas. yet gunda, on which joaquin phoenix gets an executive producer credit, makes for a remarkably powerful experience presented in str...