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If someone told you that The Cove was a really, really good– but really, really depressing– documentary about dolphins being slaughtered in Japan, you probably wouldn’t leap at the chance to see it (sic transit gloria, and all that). But Louie Psihoyos’ The Cove is much, much more than that: it plays out like a real-life cloak-and-dagger mission, one where the stakes are as high as they come (everyone involved put their life on the line to secure some of the footage seen here) and the methods are just as elaborate and clever as the ones that George Clooney put into play with his crew in Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven series. Besides that, though, The Cove is a film that everyone– yes, including you– needs to see at least once. Read on to find out why after the jump, folks.

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Reviews of THE COVE AND OCEANS – Tokyo International Film Festival

by David Corbin Posted: October 19th, 2009 at 9:32 am

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“Oceans” and “The Cove” took decidedly different paths on their way to being screened at the 2009 Tokyo International Film Festival (Here’s my first article on the Fest). “Oceans,” from French directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, a film which is at turns a breathtaking nature documentary and an exhortation to protect the beauty and majesty of the sea, was a natural choice to open the world’s only environmentally minded film festival. “The Cove,” on the other hand, almost did not make the cut despite its previous festival successes, including the Audience Award at Sundance. The film, directed by famed National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, also stresses ecological responsibility but does so by exposing the shady slaughter of dolphins by fisherman in the Japanese fishing town of Taiji. Hit the jump to explore the deep blue.