“Nenette” offers viewers the singular experience of spending 67 minutes in the company of a zoo orangutan as she goes about her daily humdrum of eating, drinking, napping and, perhaps voyeuristically, watching the people who have come to see her. While hampered by its inability to enter the head of its intelligent, strong-minded subject, this French documentary triumphs as a thoughtful look at how people view animals and at the dilemma of captivity.
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