Microcosmos

Original title: Microcosmos : le peuple de l'herbe

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A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.

Directors
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Writers
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Stars
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Jacques Perrin

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7.9/10

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Directors
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Writers
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Stars
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Jacques Perrin

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 9 wins & 9 nominations

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Kristin Scott Thomas

Narrator (English version)
(voice)

Jacques Perrin

Récitant
(voice)
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Directors
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Writers
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
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Trivia
Filmed over a period of three years.

Quotes
Narrator (English version): [beginning narration] A meadow in early morning, somewhere on Earth. Hidden here is a world as vast as our own, where the weeds are like impenetrable jungles, the stones are mountains, and even the smallest pond becomes an ocean. Time passes differently here: an hour is like a day, a day is like a season, and the passing of a season is a lifetime. But to observe this world, we must fall silent now, and listen to its murmurs.

Crazy credits
In the end credits: Le Conseil Général de L'Aveyron and SIVOM des Monts et Lacs du Lévezou extend the adventure in the world of insects at the Jean-Henri Fabre Center of Saint-Léons in Lévezou, opening in 1998.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Star Trek: First Contact/Shine/Jingle All the Way/Sling Blade/Microcosmos (1996)

Microcosmos is a magnificent journey, an experience to explore a world full of details and wonder. After watching this "documentary" you would never see another insect in the same way as before.

If you read some comments complaining about the little-to-non-existent narration is because they fail to understand this "documentary" is not about getting the facts straight. It is an experience and as such it is to be lived not to be told.

Sit on the grass, observe, and paint the daughter of the dragonfly.