Lynn Wilson

I loved this film. It is deeply meditative and beautifully conceived. Craig Foster literally found his way back from a debilitating disenchantment with life to discover a renewed sense of purpose through reconnecting with wild nature. The film's location at the juncture of untamed land and sea at the very tip of South Africa is just astounding, and the relationship Craig Foster develops with the intensely beautiful and intelligent female octopus is utterly mesmerizing. The film is at once sad (because you know the octopus only lives one year) and uplifting (because of the sheer life force that pervades every frame of the film). The film imparts a critical lesson about the power of nature to heal and the necessity for humans to become entangled with nature and not just spectators at its edge. This film is highly recommended, coming as it does when we're all dealing with social isolation from COVID. My Octopus Teacher may just convince you that our salvation from loneliness may lie in making deep and nurturing connections with the astonishing natural world around us.