Babies (film)

Babies is a French documentary from 2010, which shows four babies from different regions of the world in their first year of life. It involves Ponijao from Opuwo ( the people of the Himba ) in Namibia, Bayar from Bayanchandmani in Mongolia, Mari from Tokyo in Japan and Hattie from San Francisco in the United States.

French director Thomas Balmès said about his work: "I'm in my film to the diversity of cultures. The can with simple means pretty impressive based on these babies and the environment into which they were born, show. "Parents of the children agreed to the filming of various reasons. The mother of Ponijao from Namibia saw the possibility of medical care, the mother of Hattie from the United States promised a " universal view of childhood. We found it for Hattie interesting to get in this way a relation to other countries. "

Reviews

" Without words, but full of Kuschelpop it comes in 78 minutes around the globe. More cuteness never gabs. "

" A critical analysis of different development conditions and subsequent opportunities of the children does not deliver the film. Behind the sweet baby faces, however, conceals a silent admonition of the director to the parents of the western world. In their often exaggerated anxiety and care they fail sometimes, to leave room for their children. "

" Explains nothing here, the pictures speak for themselves. [ ... ] In fact, it is not the cultural differences that particularly stand out, it is the common ground. If the parents or the little spotlighting up on both cheeks, then everything else is unimportant. "

" " Babies "is a very intense documentary that - clearly - Parents responds. [ ... ] But it is not only parents sit here in the cinema right: Only the great shots from the different countries are partly so beautiful and expressive that one of babies ' also can have great joy when family planning is not in tangible is near. "

" Babies ' is, in the best sense, a field trip film, in another world. A world that is created solely by the unusual perspective, the camera is let down, mostly on the ground. And there filming the adventure to experience the world, to pack their items, to seek guidance. "

" ... Only just contributes to this terrible tolerant Allesgleichmacherei that characterizes the whole movie, means that the audience, it could but have forgotten all again after five minutes. The ideology, according to which nature is always right, and the cultivated here reductionist moral naturalism are just as reactionary as those in animal films. "