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June 28, 2005
March of the Penguins
March of the Penguins (2005), Luc Jacquet:
It's a little surreal seeing a theater full of grown New Yorkers cooing at baby penguins, but there it was. The penguins are very cute.
This is exactly what I needed to get the bitter taste of that fake-umentary Winged Migration out of my mouth. It's still a little too intent on telling the story, but at least it's not at the expense of the footage, and at least they're not staging anything. I still miss the National Geographic docs of yore, where they don't talk about penguins' "unbearable losses", but this is fine in the interim.
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Posted by bing at June 28, 2005 03:04 PM