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| Year: | 2005 |
| Country of origin: | France |
| Director: | Luc Jacquet |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Starring: | N/A |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428803/ |
| Tagline: | In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way |
| Favourite line: | N/A - Documentary |
Excellent documentary cataloguing the annual life cycle of the Emperor Penguin, a creature that survives in the harshest conditions on the planet.
The life is a lonely one, for both male and female, as they spend months alone in order to rear their young.
Truthfully, this is nothing we haven't seen before on the BBC in David Attenborough documentaries, and this seems a little more overblown.
Morgan Freeman's narration is a little pompous at times, but this is a small gripe. Charming, moving and inspiring, this is simply an excellent documentary, sullied somewhat by the fundamentalist Christians latching ont it as an example of how to live a pure, chaste life.
Bloody idiots.
See the Face of God through the eyes of a penguin?
Well, only if you have a brain the size of a pea, and a very small pea at that. The director can hardly be blamed for the action of others though, and quickly distanced himself from the zealots.
Back to the movie itself, just lovely.
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