Winged Migration (2001)
(Le peuple migrateur)
Country: FR/IT/GER/SP/SW
Technical: col 98m
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
From autumn to autumn we follow the annual migration patterns of a range of larger birds across the continents, as they fly north to nest and hatch their young.
Review:
A remarkable film whose repetitiveness might be thought to induce boredom, but whose ever changing backdrop and skill in tracking the birds so that parcels of narrative here and there obtrude instead inspire awe of several kinds: the implacable beauty and casual cruelty of nature - and at points man, the patience and technical achievement of the filmmakers, and the resilience of the birds, locked into a life cycle as predetermined as the heavenly spheres that guide them.
(Le peuple migrateur)
Country: FR/IT/GER/SP/SW
Technical: col 98m
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
From autumn to autumn we follow the annual migration patterns of a range of larger birds across the continents, as they fly north to nest and hatch their young.
Review:
A remarkable film whose repetitiveness might be thought to induce boredom, but whose ever changing backdrop and skill in tracking the birds so that parcels of narrative here and there obtrude instead inspire awe of several kinds: the implacable beauty and casual cruelty of nature - and at points man, the patience and technical achievement of the filmmakers, and the resilience of the birds, locked into a life cycle as predetermined as the heavenly spheres that guide them.
(Le peuple migrateur)
Country: FR/IT/GER/SP/SW
Technical: col 98m
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
From autumn to autumn we follow the annual migration patterns of a range of larger birds across the continents, as they fly north to nest and hatch their young.
Review:
A remarkable film whose repetitiveness might be thought to induce boredom, but whose ever changing backdrop and skill in tracking the birds so that parcels of narrative here and there obtrude instead inspire awe of several kinds: the implacable beauty and casual cruelty of nature - and at points man, the patience and technical achievement of the filmmakers, and the resilience of the birds, locked into a life cycle as predetermined as the heavenly spheres that guide them.