L'odyssée de l'espèce (2003) (TV)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.8/10   

Directors:

Jacques Malaterre
Javier G. Salanova

Escritores:

Yves Coppens (writer)
Jacques Dubuisson (scenario & dialogue)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 junio 2003 (Spain)

Género:

Documental

Plot:

8 million years of the human species

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Pretty good

Reparto

Pere Arquillué	...	Narrator (voice)
Peter Batakliev	...	(voice)
Léa-Marie Cantin	...	(voice)
Emmanuel Charest	...	(voice)
Hugo Dubé	...	(voice)
Annie Dufresne	...	(voice)
Natalie Gagnon	...	(voice)
Stéphane Gagnon	...	(voice)
Alain Gendreau	...	(voice)
Raphael Lajeunesse	...	(voice)
Gilbert Laplante	...	(voice)
Johanne Léveillé	...	(voice)
Tobie Pelletier	...	(voice)
Antoine Vézina	...	(voice)
Vlasta Vrana	...	(voice)
Martin Watier	...	(voice)

También conocida como:

A Species' Odyssey (Canada: English title)
La odisea de la especie (Spain) [es]

Duración:

Spain:270 min

País:

France | Canada

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Color

Locaciones de Filmación:

Atapuerca, Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain

Compañía:

17 Juin Production

Conexiones de Película:

Seguido por Le sacre de l'homme (2007) (TV)

Pretty good

A fairly entertaining two part series looking at the (possible) origins of humankind. There was a lot of creative liberty and taken with how these people may have lived, especially with their adventures and discoveries, but it helped give this documentary a little more life. There was also plenty of what is still at this time speculation more or less presented as fact, but I've noticed a lot of recent documentaries about early man or dinosaurs do the same thing.

Also, they often had the same members of a particular species involved in events at both the dawn and demise of their species, which is obviously impossible since they were happening thousands of years apart. But it's forgivable. What I did take issue with though were the obvious grainy stock shots of modern African animals just inserted into the program, as they looked ridiculously out of place.

The early homonid species were brought to life with some decent (but not great) CGI and plenty of prosthetics and makeup on naked, dirty actors. The latter is probably not quite as convincing, since it's always obvious a modern human man is underneath it whereas early man would have had a noticeably different shape to his body as well as being smaller, and likewise the Neanderthals weren't as bulky as they should have been. It's a shame early man is always depicted by a human character with some prosthetics, hair and makeup on their faces, but for practically reasons that's just about the best they can do right now.

I certainly enjoyed it though, and it has further piqued my interest in paleoanthropology which is a fascinating and ever evolving subject.