08 April 2008

We'll float down to Peru

Le Peuple migrateur (Winged migration)

(2001)

The first film I've ever shown to my granddaughter, this has a running time of two 20-month-old attention spans. It also has man-on-bird violence I'd forgotten about, but I think she'll remember the amazing shots of flocks in flight more vividly than the duck being gunned out of the air. Obviously, I did. Looking forward to working out to the DVD extras, which I have been told provide at least a partial answer to the key question: How the hell did they do that? Maybe they'll also explain the decision to use really lame music.

Warning to those with anything less than a 42" screen: it's really not big enough. In fact, 42" isn't really big enough.

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