Microcosmos
1996 -
Rated
G (MPAA)
Release Date: 05/03/2005
Features:
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Original Language:
French
Time:
80
mins.
J&R Item # 1077292_2
UPC # 786936233124
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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This film provides a fascinating, up-close view of the world of insects, snails, and other tiny invertebrates as they work, eat, fight and procreate. This acclaimed French documentary was filmed with special microscopic cameras and high-resolution microphones, which bring the viewer into the subjects' figurative living room.
Cast:
"...A miraculous, you-are-there close-up....Revelation..." -- Rating: A-
-- Owen Gleiberman
, (Entertainment Weekly)
"...A surprisingly entertaining, visually stunning treat....A remarkably rich, ultra-colorful tableau..." -- Brendan Kelly , (Variety) "...Brilliant....The film is a spectacle and a celebration of life, in all its phases..." -- Jack Mathews , (Los Angeles Times) "...MICROCOSMOS is an amazing film that allows us to peer deeply into the insect world and marvel at creatures we casually condemn to squishing..." -- Roger Ebert , (Chicago Sun-Times) 5 stars out of 5 -- "A bewitching masterpiece of wildlife photography..." -- Andrew Mueller , (Uncut) 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he time invested pays off. MICROCOSMOS' cast is a scuttling symphony of small matter." -- Kevin Harley , (Total Film) "Exotic life forms fight, struggle and die in garden-of-Eden lighting that only accentuates the spectacle's solemnity." , (Wall Street Journal)
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