Microcosmos
Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe
1996, Film, 80 min, Documentary, French, France, MoviePedia score 74
15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
Directed by Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Cast
- Kristin Scott Thomas as Narrator (English version)
- Jacques Perrin as Narrator (French version)
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