4 Stars (Cert 15)

Timothy Treadwell made himself the star of the movie of his life, but one of his co-stars, a bear, ate him and his girlfriend. But he survives on film, a brave, vain, childlike, self-mythologising man creating an imaginary life for "his" bears in an Alaskan national park for 13 years. A blond protagonist ranting to himself, dicing with death and defying nature and the gods (he bellows demands for rain from God, Allah and the "Hindu floaty thing" during a drought), Treadwell is practically a reincarnation of director Werner Herzog's late nemesis and star, Klaus Kinski.