Pro-tribal, pro-animal messages slip in easily, because Lavinia Currier’s film has Kris Marshall as Larry, based on real ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno. It also has equatorial Africa and the Pygmy people of the rain forest, so alive and rooted. The jungle, music, critters, not-too-generic natives, and Marshall’s casual but committed charm take us into a world few of us will otherwise see. It hardly matters that, in one scene, Larry squishes into mud but walks away clean. (2011) — David Elliott
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