The Legend of Pale Male
The Legend of Pale Male

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This is the true account of one of the most surprising and remarkable love stories in the history of New York. It begins in 1993, when a young man from Belgium looking to change his life has an unexpected encounter in Central Park. He meets a hawk. Not just any hawk, but a wild Redtail, a fierce predator that has not lived in the City for almost a hundred years. Compelled to follow this extraordinary creature, he buys a video camera and sets out to track the hawk. Little does... (Full plot summary below)

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This is the true account of one of the most surprising and remarkable love stories in the history of New York. It begins in 1993, when a young man from Belgium looking to change his life has an unexpected encounter in Central Park. He meets a hawk. Not just any hawk, but a wild Redtail, a fierce predator that has not lived in the City for almost a hundred years. Compelled to follow this extraordinary creature, he buys a video camera and sets out to track the hawk. Little does he know that the journey will take him almost twenty years and lead him down many trails of life, death, birth, hope, and redemption. Affectionately known to New Yorkers as Pale Male, the hawk becomes a magnificent obsession and a metaphor for triumph against all odds. His nest, perched on a posh 5th Avenue co-op, starts out as a novel curiosity to a handful of avid birdwatchers but becomes an international tourist destination - a place of pilgrimage. Then, on a December afternoon without warning, in the space of half an hour, the building dismantles Pale Male's beloved nest. In a wingbeat, media from around the world assemble on 5th Avenue to cover the unprecedented protest. Gathering behind Pale Male is an army of birdwatchers, movie stars, poets, children, dogs, and late night comedy show hosts. What unfolds next, as they say, could only happen in New York.

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Spirituality and Practice - 10/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatA crowd-pleasing documentary about the adventures of a wild Red-tailed hawk in New York City where he enchanted hardcore urban-dwellers and stole their hearts.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Walter V. AddiegoAn entertaining documentary that is more heartfelt than polished.
Reeling Reviews - 7/10 by Robin Clifford...an uplifting documentary film, unique in its subject matter and locale, which grabs your attention and keeps it for the whole film. The photography is superior in its clarity and fluidity and is worth the price of admission alone.
Reeling Reviews - 7/10 by Laura Clifford...first time filmmaker Frederic Lilien would have us believe everything Red-tailed hawk Pale Male does is a personal message, but the real story gets told in spite of him and it's a wonder - beautiful, primitive, funny, tragic and ultimately hopeful.
Boston Phoenix - 6/10 by Gerald PearyThis one's strictly for the birdwatchers.
Boston Globe - 6/10 by Ty BurrIt's notable for some astounding urban wildlife footage and for the way it unintentionally reflects the giddy narcissism of the primate known as homo sapiens.
Film Journal International - 6/10 by Maitland McDonaghBelgian filmmaker Frederic Lilien's documentary about a red-tailed hawk that set up housekeeping on tony Fifth Avenue is equal parts nature documentary and group portrait of jaded urbanites enthralled by a glimpse of the wild
Village Voice - 5/10 by Nick SchagerDespite spending nearly 15 years documenting this phenomenon, Lilien proves wholly uninterested in investigating his human subjects' habit of vigorously anthropomorphizing, and projecting their personal hopes, dreams, fears, and Daddy issues onto the striking hawk.
User Review - 8/10 by Regina GA pretty good documentary, certainly an interesting story for anyone interested in urban wildlife. It's really more about the projections of ourselves we put upon animals than it is about the animals themselves, which while an interesting topic winds up being one that this movie beats you over the head with at times. Still, worth seeing, especially for some great shots of the hawks in action.

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