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Animals in love (Les animaux amoureux) - Cécile De France, Laurent Charbonnier
Threat advisory: Guarded - General risk of entertaining activities
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In the tradition of March of the penguins, Microcosmos and Travelling birds comes a new, stunningly-photographed journey into the wonders of nature.
The gentle art of seduction is by no means limited to human behaviour. The animal kingdom offers many striking examples of courtship, with males and females displaying unexpected delicacy and subtlety, but also remarkable ingenuity, audacity and determination in pursuing and securing mates. In many aspects, animal behaviour is reminiscent of our own, and this journey through the beautiful, fascinating, amusing world of animals in love cannot fail to strike a very familiar chord.
Accompanied by a new original score from legendary composer Philip Glass, Animals in love (Les animaux amoureux) will prove to be one of the year's most unique movie experiences.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film documentary nature mate mating animal behaviour monkey sex male female display biology procreation
Persons of interest
- Cécile De France .... Narrator
- Laurent Charbonnier .... Director
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Theatrical report
Despite the title, Animals in love (Les animaux amoureux) is not about the development of emotion as a by-product of evolution, it is an anthropomorphisation of the procreative act. The title implies that animals can feel love but does nothing to prove it. We know that humans feel love because we can talk about it but the makers of this film confuse sex with love and interpret animal behaviour through a human paradigm.
Other than that, the pictures are nice, Philip Glass's score is dramatic and there are some great scenes of mate-finding displays. Unfortunately, these elements aren't enough to make the film a nature documentary. You can see better (ie more scientific) docos on TV. The "poetic" book-end narration is appalling.
The funniest parts are when the males try to crack on to the females and are rejected. It's a tough life being a bloke who wants a root.
Or, as the bogan outside my house late one Saturday night once said, "Charelle, ya slag, stop tryin' to steal my boyfriend!"
The documentary, nature movie Animals in love (Les animaux amoureux) is directed by Laurent Charbonnier and stars Cécile De France.
Government security censorship classification
G
Surveillance time
85 minutes (1:25 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 4 December 2008
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