Le peuple migrateur (2001)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Directors:

Jacques Perrin
Jacques Cluzaud (co-director)

Escritores:

Jean Dorst (writer)
Stéphane Durand (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 diciembre 2001 (Belgium)

Género:

Documental

Plot:

Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.

Plot Keywords:

Bird | Arctic | Flight | Migration | Ocean

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 12 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A magnificent movie experience

Reparto

Philippe Labro	...	Narrator (English version)
Jacques Perrin	...	Narrator (voice)

También conocida como:

Winged Migration (Canada: English title) (festival title) (USA)
Il popolo migratore (Italy)
Nómadas del viento (Spain)
Nomaden der Lüfte (Alemania)
Nomaden der Lüfte - Das Geheimnis der Zugvögel (Alemania)
The Travelling Birds (International: English title)
Travelling Birds: An Adventure in Flight (Australia) (DVD title)
Tocando el cielo (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

98 min | Canada:81 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:89 min | Argentina:92 min

País:

France | Italy | Alemania | Spain | Switzerland

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS-ES | Dolby Digital EX

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Finland:K-3 | South Korea:Todo | Australia:G | Denmark:A | France:U | Germany:o.Al. | Netherlands:AL | Portugal:M/6 | Singapore:G | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:U | USA:G | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE

Locaciones de Filmación:

Abbaye, Mont Saint-Michel, Manche, France

Compañía:

Bac Films

Trivialidades:

Filmmakers exposed the eggs of some of the birds to the sounds of people and film cameras so that the birds would not be afraid of them later.

Citas:

[first lines]
Narrator: The story of bird migration is the story of promise - a promise to return.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Banda de Sonido:

To Be By Your Side

A magnificent movie experience

Watching Jacques Perrin's Winged Migration I felt incredibly cheated. I felt cheated out of the fact that I didn't get the chance to see this remarkable film at my locale theatre where the images would be displayed in a much larger venue.

Winged Migration is an astonishing achievement. With the help of 450 individuals, including 17 pilots and 14 cinematographers, directors Jacques Perrin, Michael Debats and Jacques Cluzaud, bring to life the migrating habits of a variety of birds throughout the world.

We learn of the red-crowned crane that flies 600 miles from the far east to the Siberian taiga, the sandhill crane that flies 2000 miles from the Central American Plains to the Arctic circle, and the bald eagle that flies 1800 miles from the American West to Alaska, just to name a few. But it is how we learn from these creatures that is pure cinematic symphony. The three directors took 4 years to film Winged Migration and used everything from gliders, planes, helicopters and balloons to get close enough to the flying birds that you would actually think you are one of them. The scene of the Canadian Geese migrating is photographed so magnificently through the Grand Canyon that we can see the reflection of the formation on the stilled morning waters without the simplest distraction of man.

Winged Migration is filled with such imagery. Not soon will I forget the greater sage grouse in Idaho where the birds have expanding chests and have tail-feathers that look as sharp as a porcupine's quills. Nor will I soon forget the scenes where millions of king penguins take over a coastal island or the countless birds diving into the water with such rapid fire like a multiple torpedo hit.

What is really amazing however, is how the filmmakers were able to show the birds in such a format as to give them personalities. We see the arrogance of the Canadian Goose, the fighting nature of the red breasted goose, the relentless tenacity of the captured Amazon parrot and the grieving king penguins after one of their young are eaten.

For all its glorious visuals, it is man that brings to the screen the most unnatural and catastrophic of images. Threshers on a farm destroy a habitat, hunters hide in the reeds and shoot down overhead geese and pollution and sludge take the life of a migrating red breast. It is hard to believe that the same species that could get close enough to these birds to follow them hundreds of miles, is also one of their greatest enemies.

Winged Migration should be seen on the large screen, but even on the tiniest of home entertainment units, you cannot help but marvel at the life cycle, the fight for survival and incredible long journey's these creatures embark upon twice a year. Three stars.