March of the Penguins (2005)
(La marche de l'Empereur)
Country: FR/US
Technical: col 80m
Director: Luc Jacquet
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
The Emperor penguin in Antarctica must make an annual trek of seventy miles or so, backwards and forwards, between the sea and the breeding ground, as part of its complex mating process.
Review:
A majestic film, one of those subjects which seems it could not possibly absorb one for over an hour, and yet one is reluctant to leave the cinema. The impossibly cruel temperatures, hunger and exhaustion borne by these amphibious birds in an extraordinarily anthropomorphic collaborative ritual of courtship, incubation and feeding beggars the imagination, until one realizes the film crew shared these conditions, more or less, for the same period.
(La marche de l'Empereur)
Country: FR/US
Technical: col 80m
Director: Luc Jacquet
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
The Emperor penguin in Antarctica must make an annual trek of seventy miles or so, backwards and forwards, between the sea and the breeding ground, as part of its complex mating process.
Review:
A majestic film, one of those subjects which seems it could not possibly absorb one for over an hour, and yet one is reluctant to leave the cinema. The impossibly cruel temperatures, hunger and exhaustion borne by these amphibious birds in an extraordinarily anthropomorphic collaborative ritual of courtship, incubation and feeding beggars the imagination, until one realizes the film crew shared these conditions, more or less, for the same period.
(La marche de l'Empereur)
Country: FR/US
Technical: col 80m
Director: Luc Jacquet
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
The Emperor penguin in Antarctica must make an annual trek of seventy miles or so, backwards and forwards, between the sea and the breeding ground, as part of its complex mating process.
Review:
A majestic film, one of those subjects which seems it could not possibly absorb one for over an hour, and yet one is reluctant to leave the cinema. The impossibly cruel temperatures, hunger and exhaustion borne by these amphibious birds in an extraordinarily anthropomorphic collaborative ritual of courtship, incubation and feeding beggars the imagination, until one realizes the film crew shared these conditions, more or less, for the same period.