Microcosmos

Starring:Jacques Perrin, Kristin Scott Thomas
Director: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Studio: Miramax
Product Type: DVD

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Using revolutionary cameras, the directors of this French film (with minimal English-language narration) have made an amazing chronicle of the insect world. There are at least a dozen fascinating, memorable images, and the carnage is held to a minimum. Some favorites include a caterpillar traffic jam, a frog's bout with a rain storm, and a bird that turns into Godzilla for a bunch of ants. Then there's the snail mating scene that must be seen to be believed. Great for families. --Doug Thomas

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MICROCOSMOS captures the fun and adventure of a spectacular hidden universe revealed in a breathtaking, close-up view unlike anything you've ever seen! Your family will marvel at a pair of stag beetles dueling like titans. The kids will stare bug-eyed as a magnificent army of worker ants race to stock their larder ... while tyring to avoid becoming a feisty pheasant's dinner. And you'll have a front-row seat to witness an amazing transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, the remarkable birth of a mosquito, and several other minute miracles of life. With its tiny cast of thousands, MICROCOSMOS leaves no doubt that "Mother Nature remains the greatest special effects wizard of all" (New York Times).

Customer Reviews:

Antidote to ADHD.......2007-07-02

Great for restless kids, especially young boys. Fascinating up-close footage of life underground and above. A natural sedative.

Not For Kids!!.......2007-06-01

My husband and I purchased "MicroCosmos" believing it would be on par with "Winged Migration;" however, we were sorely disappointed. Even though God's hidden universe was captured with macro-cinema exacting lenses, unlocking all hidden defining detail, the formatting content lacked the necessary uplifting creativity to make it uniquely interesting.

We were expecting the unsurpassed life-capturing video technology displayed in "Winged Migration" with its musical score uniqueness that captured the magnificence of flight in all the world's arenas. But "MicroCosmos" of bug life was a dud; all-dreary in comparison.

I would not recommend this to children!! The producers cunningly included a sexual scene to display mating in a way that no child or discerning adult should observe or would want to. It is deplorable that it is recommended for children as if its content holds all innocence.

oldie but great ....great for kids.......2007-05-10

bought it for the kids..they love insects...great imiages and great shots.....

Great nature DVD.......2007-05-07

Fantastic images and information, not just for kids! Very entertaining as well as educational.

Love bugs.......2007-04-11

Not quite the same experience as Baraka or or the Qatsi trilogy, but very entertaining. I was surprised at the ladybug sex scene so early in the feature. It is a good thing my kids are innocent!

Microcosmos (Original French Language Version Only)

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Microcosmos (Original French Language Version Only)

Manufacturer: Christal Films
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching. Un voyage sur une planète inconnue: la Terre redédouverte à l'échelle du centimètre. Ses habitants: des créatures fantastiques, les insectes et autres animaux de l'herbe et de l'eau. Ses paysages: forêts impénétrables, des touffes d'herbe, gouttes de rosée grosses comme des ballons... Il s'agit d'explorer cette terre nouvelle une simple prairie durant une journée d'été; un jour, une seule journée, c'est l'équivalant d'une saison dans le micro monde, un pan entier de vie lorsque, comme les insects, on a une existence qui se mesure en semaines...

Genesis / Microcosmos (2 Pack) Original French ONlY Version - No Subtitles

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Genesis / Microcosmos (2 Pack) Original French ONlY Version - No Subtitles

ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Microcosmos / Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe / Mikrokosmos by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou

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Microcosmos / Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe / Mikrokosmos by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou
Director: Claude Nuridsany , and Marie Perennou
Manufacturer: CP Digital
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Language: Russian, French. Subtitles: NON

ASIN: B000R9G670

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Poltora chasa, provedennye na neizvestnoj planete, gde vse rasstojanija izmerjajutsja millimetrami. Ee obitateli: fantasticheskie sozdanija, nasekomye, ulitki i prochie obitateli travy i vody. Ee pejzazhi: neprohodimye debri travjanyh kuw, kapli rosy, ogromnye, kak vozdushnye shary. Zritel' otkryvaet dlja sebja prekrasnyj, sijajuwij vsemi kraskami radugi parallel'nyj mir, gde rabotajut inye fizicheskie zakony. Mir, zalityj irreal'nym svetom, polnyj nevedomyh zvukov. Strana, gde zhivotnye umejut hodit' po vode ili vniz golovoj. Postojannye perehody iz odnogo mira v drugoj dajut oshelomlennym zriteljam pochuvstvovat' otnositel'nost' nashih predstavlenij o prostranstve. Fil'm vosstanavlivaet davno utrachennuju nami sposobnost' udivljat'sja!

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Antidote to ADHD
Not For Kids!!
oldie but great ....great for kids
Great nature DVD
Love bugs

Microcosmos [Region 2]
Starring: Jacques Perrin , and Kristin Scott Thomas
Director: Claude Nuridsany , and Marie Pérennou
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00004RYCC

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Customer Reviews:

Antidote to ADHD.......2007-07-02

Great for restless kids, especially young boys. Fascinating up-close footage of life underground and above. A natural sedative.

Not For Kids!!.......2007-06-01

oldie but great ....great for kids.......2007-05-10

bought it for the kids..they love insects...great imiages and great shots.....

Great nature DVD.......2007-05-07

Fantastic images and information, not just for kids! Very entertaining as well as educational.

Love bugs.......2007-04-11

Not quite the same experience as Baraka or or the Qatsi trilogy, but very entertaining. I was surprised at the ladybug sex scene so early in the feature. It is a good thing my kids are innocent!

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Genesis (Original French ONLY Version)
Director: Claude Nuridsany
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Microcosmos [Region 2]
Starring: Jacques Perrin , and Kristin Scott Thomas
Director: Claude Nuridsany , and Marie Pérennou
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00004VY64

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