"L'Ocean, c'est quoi l'Oc�an?"
In a single word: BREATHTAKING!
Two words? AWE-INDUCING. Also JAW-DROPPING.
Seriously, there were several moments in this film when I noticed my mouth was gaping and I couldn't seem to bring myself to close my jaw. It is that beautiful!
Oc�ans is the latest project by French documentary film-makers Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud (of Microcosmos and Le Peuple Migrateur / Winged Migration fame). Released in the U.S. by Disney Nature for Earth Day (I wonder why they didn't wait for World Oceans Day?) it has been highly popular with critics and the general movie-going public alike. I have trouble getting my friends to join me in the cinema... but none of them wanted to miss this one! Although that might have something to do with the high percentage of biologists among us... ;o)
From what I've seen by comparing the two websites, the French (and Spanish which is what I saw) version of the film is a bit different from the US one. The narrator is rarely present (as opposed to Pierce Brosnan in the English version talking about each of the animals... from what I could tell in the videos on the Disney page), and is basically there to ask a question and let the images try to answer it for him. To me the music and images come together to create a form of poetry that is very true the nature of the Ocean itself and what it has inspired in so many people since the dawn of humanity.
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