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Overview

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Writers:
Claude Nuridsany (writer)
Marie Pérennou (writer)
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Release Date:
20 October 2004 (France) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Best when viewed on a big screen! more

Cast

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Sotigui Kouyaté ... Narrator / Le conteur
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Additional Details

Runtime:
81 min
Country:
France | Italy
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Switzerland:6 (canton of Zurich) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Netherlands:AL | USA:G | Czech Republic:U | Australia:G
Filming Locations:
Aveyron, France more

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11 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Best when viewed on a big screen!, 29 October 2004
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Author: zundays from Brussels, Belgium

This film boldly undertakes to tell the story of life from the Big Bang to the variety of species that we know today. And the history lesson becomes a fairy tale.

Genesis asks that you leave aside everything you know about yourself, and think of your body as the substance that makes up the universe, your life as the energy that sparkled up the Big Bang, your projects as a shape, a limited space of organized chaos, resisting the deterioration of time.

The film is breath-taking and captivating from the opening sequence to the last shot. Every image of the film is carefully selected and placed in a sequence: swirling dirt becomes a galaxy; rings of water float on the sound of the mating dance. The technological prowess of the filming is staggering, but does not surpass the ingenuity of the editing, and camera movements: shot in his apparent loneliness, the insect looks like a genius, solving obstacles one after the other. Human meaning is attached to all images shown, from the fish pretending to be daydreaming while baiting its prey, to the crawling crab signaling to a rival. The story of the earth is told by the reality of those jungles and tropical beaches, that we know so little about: swimming frogs start to hop; the giant tortoise becomes a dinosaur.

If you think this is going to be some kind of Discovery Channel show, think again and surprise yourself.

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