Over a year of observation, the two grow comfortable in each other’s company (but not that comfortable), granting Foster an intimate (as in, close!) view of an alien life.Īs nature documentaries go, My Octopus Teacher is strikingly heart-over-head – a decision Foster might have come to regret since a Twitter thread about his “erotic relationship” with his subject went viral. My Octopus Teacher tells the moving story of how Craig Foster, after vowing to free-dive daily after burning out at work, came to know an octopus living in the kelp forests outside his home in Cape Town. (And, if Google search brought you here, a time-saving tip for the future: that won’t ever be published by the Guardian. Let me be clear, as both a fully paid-up member of the cephalopod-squad and one of the first reviewers of the film: the man does not have sex with the octopus. A new Netflix documentary about a film-maker and his “octopus teacher” has become the subject of impish suggestion and scurrilous rumour on social media, speculating about whether their intimate relationship ever, ah … turned physical.
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