15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
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Character
Earnest, contemporary, grave and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Jacques PerrinRécitant / Narrator (voice)
Crew
- Claude NuridsanyDirector
- Marie PérennouDirector
- Claude NuridsanyScreenplay
- Marie PérennouScreenplay
- Thierry MachadoDirector of Photography
- Bruno CoulaisOriginal Music Composer
- Florence RicardEditor
- Marie-Josèphe YoyotteEditor
- Christophe BarratierProducer
- Yvette MalletProducer
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