
A documentary exploring secret lives, behavior and extreme levels of human-beast intimacy and communication, focusing on the 'only in New York' story of Antoine Yates and his cohabitation in a Harlem high-rise with Ming, a five-hundred-pound tiger and Al, a seven-foot alligator, combined with filmic observation of predators in domesticated geographies.... (Full plot summary below)
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A documentary exploring secret lives, behavior and extreme levels of human-beast intimacy and communication, focusing on the 'only in New York' story of Antoine Yates and his cohabitation in a Harlem high-rise with Ming, a five-hundred-pound tiger and Al, a seven-foot alligator, combined with filmic observation of predators in domesticated geographies.
Leave your thoughts about Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air.
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabThis is a far cooler and more detached film than might be expected from its subject matter. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawA strange film about a very strange episode in the life of New York City: it's a filmic B-side to Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man. |
| Total FilmMatt LookerAntoine Yates is worthy docu-fodder. Shame, then, that director Philip Warne is less interested in Yates' story than in philosophising about man's relationship with nature. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterA film that takes a great subject and turns it into something determined to send you to sleep. |
| Times (UK)Kevin MaherProfoundly pretentious, woolly-headed and sophomoric. |