Microcosmos : Le peuple de l'herbe

A unique documentary with a pleasant insight and perfect technical aspect about an ordinary day in the grass behind our houses. Personally, from this team, I still like The Travelling Birds a little bit more. (16/05/2005)

Fascinating. And it almost managed without spoken word, thank goodness. Scenes with snails in love, fighting stag beetle or wasp larvae are among the best naturalistic moments I have ever seen. I also really liked the approach of the filmmakers, who obviously didn't lack insight, and thus the sequence with the rain reminds me of a war film, the dung beetle gives a performance comparable to the most famous die-hards (I personally thought of Robert de Niro in The Mission) and the final "mosquito uprising" is as if it were cut from a horror movie. Of course, Bruno Coulais is also "responsible" for the great experience, but the breathtaking nature of our planet still plays the main role.__P.S. I could have done without the spiders, but the sea snake building an underwater house out of air bubbles really took my breath away. (06/10/2012)