"A chronicle, filmed over seven years (in the savannahs of northern Niger and Mali), of all the technological aspects of lion hunting: making bows, making poison, traps, the hunt and its attendant ritual, etc. But unlike 'classic' ethnographic films dealing with hunting technology...this film also deals with the relationships between hunters and prey, and also inscribes the effect of the hunt on Rouch, and his involvement in it. As a document it is both personal and ethnographic...The film also raises questions of morality in relation to documentary film practice." --Mick Eaton, Anthropology-Reality-Cinema: The Films of Jean Rouch