Microcosmos (film)

Microcosm - The people of the grasses is a French documentary from 1996, which was filmed by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou. It shows the natural processes in the life of insects in a meadow in France.

Action

The film seen at close quarters the buzz of bees, ladybirds, snails, spiders, ants, mosquitoes in food intake, during mating, hunting, hunted becoming, the battle or hatching.

The fact that the audience the protagonist encounters on par with what happens with the help of extreme macro shots, slow motion and high-speed cameras, he enters a world he knows in entirely new ways.

Awards

  • The film won five Cesars. For the best camera Thierry Machado, Hugues Ryffel, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou were awarded the prize for the best cut got Florence Ricard and Marie- Josèphe Yoyotte, Bruno Coulais won the César for Best Original Score, Jacques Perrin for the best production and the prize for the best sound could Philippe Barbeau and Bernard Leroux accept.
  • In addition, he was César - nominated for Best Film ( Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou ) for the best first film and for the best sound editor ( Laurent Quaglio ).
  • In Cannes Nuridsany Claude and Marie Pérennou won the Grand Technology Prize ( out of competition).
  • The composer Bruno Coulais won the George Delerue Prize at the Flanders International Film Festival.

Reviews

  • Filmdienst: " No natural film in the usual sense, but a comment about an unexpected parallel world who sometimes makes feeding prejudices, but earned his unusual perspective attention. "

Locations

  • Monts et Lacs du Lévézou, Aveyron, France
  • Salles- la-Source, Aveyron, France
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