The Anthropologist

Dallas International Film Festival Greetings again from the darkness. Following an anthropologist around for 5 years will either sound interesting to you or not.

Over the course of five years, a mother and a daughter – the mother, Susan Crate, being an anthropologist – set out to study the impact of climate change on local communities across the globe. While the premise sounds promising, the film fails to deliver.

Full disclosure, I believe in climate change, but films on the topic tend to be doom-and-gloom with a side of preachy, overly earnest lecturing. To my surprise, this film is not that at all.

Recently saw THE ANTHROPOLOGIST in class as part of World Anthropology Day. As an anthro student I was fascinated by its main subjects Susie and her daughter Katie.