Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (1996)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Directors:

Claude Nuridsany
Marie Pérennou

Writers:

Claude Nuridsany (writer)
Marie Pérennou (writer)

Release Date:

9 October 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

It's Jurassic Park in your own back yard.

Plot:

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography...

Plot Keywords:

Spider | Insect | Time Lapse Photography | Beetle | Snail

Awards:

7 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Jacques Perrin	...	Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice)
Kristin Scott Thomas	...	Narrator (English version) (voice)

Also Known As:

Microcosmos (Canada: English title) (USA)
Microcosmos - Il popolo dell'erba (Italy)
Çayirin sakinleri (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Microcosmos (Brazil) (DVD title) [pt]
Microcosmos - Fantástica Aventura da Natureza (Brazil) (video title) [pt]
Microcosmos - den lilla världen (Sweden) [sv]
Microcosmos, de Claude Nuridsany y Marie Pérennou (Spain) [es]
Microcosmos: O Povo da Erva (Portugal) [pt]
Mikrokosmos (Finland) (TV title) [fi]
Mikrokosmos (Poland) [pl]
Mikrokosmos - Das Volk der Gräser (Germany) [de]
Mikrokosmos - gräsets folk (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
Mikrokosmos - ruohikon kansa (Finland) [fi]
Mikrokosmos: Oi katoikoi tis hlois (Greece) [el]
Mikrokozmosz (Hungary) [hu]
Mikrokozmosz - A füvek népe (Hungary) [hu]

Runtime:

80 min | Japan:73 min

Country:

France | Switzerland | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:F (Ontario) | Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | UK:U | South Korea:All | Australia:G | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:o.Al. | Portugal:M/6 | Spain:T | USA:G

Filming Locations:

Monts et Lacs du Lévézou, Aveyron, France

Company:

Galatée Films

Movie Connections:

Referenced in A Bug's Life (1998)

My jaw was literally dropped through some of this film.

Amazing. There must have been millions of hours of footage shot to obtain these perfect sequences of magnified nature. Each segment was fascinating, beautiful, in some cases strangely emotional.

My jaw was literally dropped through much of this film. I even found myself wowing like a hippy and chuckling like Butthead many times. There were even some moments that I almost said, "No, that's not realistic. They made that up."

The soundtrack was almost non-existent, so you appreciated it more when the haunting music worked its way into a scene. The sound quality of the actual critters was very good as well. There is nearly no narrative or narration throughout the film -and that would be my only criticism -there should have been NONE. The movie was spectacular with no commentary, and the human voice for a brief moment in the beginning and end detracted from the alien environment.

This movie was not a documentary, it was just fine filmmaking that would only fall into the genre of "mind-f---".