Babies (movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Babies |
| Original title | Bébés |
| Country of production | France |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Balmès |
| production |
Alain Chabat , Amandine Billot , Christine Rouxel |
| music | Bruno Coulais |
| camera |
Jérôme Alméras , Frazer Bradshaw , Steeven Petitteville , Eric Turpin |
| cut |
Reynald Bertrand , Craig McKay |
Babies is a French documentary from 2010 that shows four babies from different regions of the world in their first year of life. These are Ponijao from Opuwo (from the Himba people ) in Namibia , Bayar from Bayanchandmani in Mongolia , Mari from Tokyo in Japan and Hattie from San Francisco in the USA .
The French director Thomas Balmès said of his work: “My film is about the diversity of cultures. This can be shown quite impressively with simple means using these babies and the environment into which they were born. ”The parents of the children agreed to the shooting for various reasons. The mother of Ponijao from Namibia saw the possibility of medical care, the mother of Hattie from the USA promised herself a “general view of childhood. We found it interesting for Hattie to relate to other countries in this way ”.
Reviews
“Without words, but full of cozy pop, it goes around the globe in 78 minutes. There has never been more cuteness. "
“The film does not provide a critical analysis of the different developmental conditions and later chances of the children. Behind the cute baby faces, however, there is a silent warning from the director to the parents of the western world. In their often exaggerated anxiety and care, they sometimes fail to give their children space. "
“Nothing is explained here, the pictures speak for themselves. […] Basically, it's not the cultural differences that stand out, it's the common ground. If the little one beams at their parents up to their cheeks, then everything else becomes completely unimportant. "
“'Babies' is a very intense documentary that - quite clearly - speaks to parents. […] But it's not just parents who are right here in the cinema: The great shots from the various countries alone are sometimes so beautiful and expressive that you can really enjoy 'babies' when family planning is not yet within reach . "
“'Babies' is, in the best sense of the word, an excursion film into another world. A world that is created solely through the unfamiliar perspective, the camera is set low, mostly on the floor. And there films the adventure of experiencing the world, packing your objects, looking for orientation. "
“... only this terribly tolerant leveling-off that characterizes the entire film contributes to the fact that the viewers who were concerned have forgotten everything after five minutes. The ideology according to which nature is always right and the reductionist moral of naturalism cultivated here are just as reactionary as those in animal films. "
Web links
- StudioCanal
- Babies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thematic and aesthetic background information (pdf), film & curriculum from the Institute for Cinema and Film Culture
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for babies . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 871 K).
- ↑ Age rating for babies . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Sebastian Gehrmann: A man and four babies In: Frankfurter Rundschau from August 20, 2010, pp. 20-21
- ↑ Review: The youngest cinema stars in the world ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Das Erste online
- ^ MDR television from August 12, 2010
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt from August 19, 2010
- ↑ Eltern.de of August 19, 2010