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Winged Migration
List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $13.45
VHS Tape - 02 March, 2004
Columbia Tristar Hom
G (General Audience)
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Director: Michel Debats
Cast: Jacques Perrin
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Color
- Closed-captioned
- NTSC
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| VHS Tape Description For earthbound humans, Winged Migration is as close as any of us will get to sharing the sky with our fine feathered friends. It's as if French director Jacques Perrin and his international crew of dedicated filmmakers had been given a full-access pass by Mother Nature herself, with the complete "cooperation" of countless species of migrating birds, all answering to eons of migratory instinct. The film is utterly simple in purpose, with minimal narration and on-screen titles to identify the wondrous varieties of flying wildlife, but its visceral effect is humbling, awesome and magnificently profound. Technically, Perrin surpasses the achievement of his earlier film Microcosmos (which did for insects what this film does for birds), and apart from a few digital skyscapes for poetic effect, this astonishing film uses no special effects whatsoever, with soaring, seemingly miraculous camera work that blesses the viewer with, quite literally, a bird's-eye view. A brief but important hunting scene may upset sensitive viewers and children, but doesn't stop Winged Migration from being essential all-ages viewing. --Jeff Shannon |
| Reviews from Customers
Not a Documentary. Not about Migration of Birds.
In many stores, this title has been listed as a documentary. But, it is not. It is a scripted fiction like movie, filmed with the help of some trained birds. It is purely for entertainment - nothing to do with documentary.
I thought, I will learn something about real world - migration of birds, that happens around the globe. Many of the terms, used in the description, gave me such an impression. I did not get what I was buying.
It is not done in an intellectual way. They had lot of money and good equipment to take huge amount of film footage. Then they picked the clips that looked visually good. In the end, there is nothing for someone to learn.
I completely failed to understand, what was their main focus.
It touches the Heart... This was a wonderful and stirring movie. Filled with powerful scenes and heart breaking music Winged Migration is one of the best films i have seen all year. The watcher is inmerced in a world both alien and familar as the lives of these birds are pertrayed in a most human way. Each bird has its own story to tell about the joys and hardships of its ever going struggle for life. The music choices for the film are exquistly matched with each scene insuring both happy and sad tears to gently fall from the watcher's eyes. This film portrays the most basic human emotions through the eyes of its feathered souls. Sure to touch the heart of anyone who watches it, Winged Migration is a most have for any intellictual mind.
Beautiful, yet leaves you with questions I must agree this film ranks along the likes of "Baraka" and "Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi". It focuses on the beauty of nature, and the migration of numerous bird species. To do so, it leverages some great music to serve as a musical background to the photography of some of the world's most extraordinary landscapes.
Though I personally don't care as much about whether the birds were staged or not, I did find the movie to fall short in one respect. Many times throughout it, you wonder what you're looking at. What country are the birds overflying? Whether they were or not the same birds you saw before, etc. However, if you put that aside, this is a great nature film. |
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