Marche de l’empereur, La [March of the Penguins, The]
© A.J. Malouin 2008
(Rating: 9 by Caryl, and a pass by Al.)
(See our side-bar page “How Caryl & Al [and The Film Snob] Rate Movies”)
(2005/USA/France. Directed by Luc Jacquet.)
As the days are heating up and the polar ice caps are melting under Global Warming, no you can march into your air-conditioned Family Room to see this cute little animal film.
“The March of the Penguins” tells the story of how Emperor penguins court, mate, and turn their eggs their penguinlings. In turnabout from “normal” human activity, the mothers look for food and the fathers mother the egg.
This is a very nice documentary, beautifully filmed, and full of interesting tidbits that one never knew about Emperor penguins in their natural environment. (How indeed *could* we know these things– not being penguins ourselves, and living mostly in Zone 5 for planting?)
Well, the man behind his camera has laid behind down his camera, on his belly which is at penguin-height, on the frozen cold ice shelf, for seven months!
*That’s* how we know. As Caryl says, now we can discuss penguins at a cocktail party, when we are invited to one wherein such things are talkt about. And, indeed, why *wouldn’t we be? (1 hour 25.)