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Microcosmos (1996)

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Reviews Counted: 29

Fresh: 28

Rotten:1

Average Rating: 7.9/10

Runtime: 80 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Synopsis: This film provides a fascinating, up-close view of the world of insects, snails, and other tiny invertebrates as they work, eat, fight and procreate. This acclaimed French documentary was filmed... This film provides a fascinating, up-close view of the world of insects, snails, and other tiny invertebrates as they work, eat, fight and procreate. This acclaimed French documentary was filmed with special microscopic cameras and high-resolution microphones, which bring the viewer into the subjects' figurative living room. [More]

Director: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou

Director: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou
Producer: Christophe Barratier, Jacques Perrin

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May 3, 2005

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  • MicroCosmos
  • MICROCOSMOS captures the fun and adventure of a spectacular hidden universe revealed in a breathtaking, close-up view unlike anything you've ever seen! Your family will marvel at a pair of stag beetles dueling like titans. The kids will stare bug-eyed as a magnificent army of worker ants race to stock their larder ... while tyring to avoid becoming a feisty pheasant's dinner. And you'll have a front-row seat to witness an amazing transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, the remarkable birth of a mosquito, and several other minute miracles of life. With its tiny cast of thousands, MICROCOSMOS leaves no doubt that "Mother Nature remains the greatest special effects wizard of all" (New York Times).
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    03/26/09
    Brendan Kelly
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    Both informative and entertaining, French docu doesn't presume any previous knowledge of or interest in the subject, finding the right tone (serio and also slyly humorous) to introduce in detail a previously unrecorded but fascinating universe.

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    08/16/07
    Emanuel Levy
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    06/24/06
    Derek Adams
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    07/04/05
    Emanuel Levy
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    Should give the viewer a buzz.

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    06/04/05
    Dennis Schwartz
    Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    This is art.

    Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
    05/31/05
    Rory L. Aronsky
    Film Threat

    ...here's a film with drama, violence, sex and laughs; in other words, everything Hollywood has, but without the star salaries.

    Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
    05/12/05
    Thomas Delapa
    Boulder Weekly

    fascinating and gorgeous

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    02/26/05
    Rich Cline
    Shadows on the Wall

    Ao revelar o microscópico universo que nos cerca, este maravilhoso documentário faz com que, paradoxalmente, o espectador se sinta pequeno.

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    10/08/04
    Robin Clifford
    Reeling Reviews

    Astonishingly up-close and personal look at an infinitesimal world as alien as anything captured by the Mars rovers… a world of strange fascination and unexpected beauty.

    Full Review Source: Decent Films Guide | comment Comment
    03/02/04
    Steven D. Greydanus
    Decent Films Guide

    The material presented here is so compelling and so true to the natural processes it records that it's beside the point to wonder if the filmmakers sped them up.

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    Jake Euker
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    05/20/03
    Susan Tavernetti
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    Macro-sucked.

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    04/30/03
    Alex Sandell
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