"Les amours de la pieuvre" or "The Love Life of an Octopus" is among the later and better-known works by famous French documentarian Jean Painlevé. And I can see why. The use of color here helps a lot, the scenes depicted are nice to watch and Painlevé's comments are fairly informative. Overall, I enjoyed the watch here. The soundtrack is certainly something to get used to, but if you have seen some of the man's other works, you will not be surprised anymore. Octopusses are certainly very interesting creatures, somewhat very gross, yet fascinating nonetheless. Painlevé must have liked them too as they are one of the exceptions about which he made two films, one very early in his career (40 years earlier) and one very late. I recommend this almost 50-year-old film. Thumbs up.
