Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (1996)

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 "Phénomania: La marche de l'empereur" (2005)

I knew it was unbelievable, but I didn't expect it to be THAT good

I saw the Winged Migration before this one and I though that was the most beautiful and amazing films ever made. I never though I would be proved wrong soon. Microcosmos has everything Winged Migration has, such as amazing cinematography, beautiful music and the best studio ever, our planet, it also has something more - the whole new world to show that most people don't realise exists. "Look at your feet, this funny world." starts the beautiful song while the opening credits roll and we are treated to a beautiful flight through the clouds. The camera pans down, to the forest and then lower still. Thus starts the most amazing journey you ever saw on film and for the next hour you can't take your eyes of the screen.

Palm trees, anakondas, space aliens... Grass and insects actully, but shown in the way you never thought possible. Who would have known that the sight of two snails making tender love is so cute and lovely, that spiders are so scary, dung-beetles are so funny and waterdrops so heavy? Watch how grass grows, flowers open in the morning, insects eat plants, plants eat insects, insects make love to other insects, plants and vice versa, chrysalis change into butterfly, etc., etc. And did I mention tender snail lovemaking? :)

There is whole new world under our feet. Everything so small and so amazingly beautiful at the same time. Don't let it stay unnoticed. Go and watch this film immediately (and see Winged Migration as well).