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Whispers in the Woods review – paddling in the moonlight in tender study of human-animal interaction
Director Vincent Munier takes his father and son into the Vosges forest in France and finds lynx, serene foxes and deer Cannily timed to overlap but also contrast with the BBC’s Blue Planet III, this French nature documentary embodies a very different way to go about things. Instead of the detached, friendly style of David Attenborough with his generous sprinkle of zoological facts and figures, Whispers in the Woods is a more emotionally driven, visually stylised work that emphasises the interaction of the human and the animal realm. Its director, Vincent Munier, previously made The Velvet Queen , a swooning study of his and writer Sylvain Tesson’s search for snow leopards in Tibet. This time round, Munier places his father Michel, a naturalist, and his own teenage son Simon at the centre of the action; we experience the film largely through Simon’s bright eyes as Michel teaches him abou
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Director Vincent Munier takes his father and son into the Vosges forest in France and finds lynx, serene foxes and deer Cannily timed to overlap but also contrast with the BBC’s Blue Planet III, this French nature documentary embodies a very different way to go about things. Instead of the detached, friendly style of David Attenborough with his generous sprinkle of zoological facts and figures, Whispers in the Woods is a more emotionally driven, visually stylised work that emphasises the interaction of the human and the animal realm. Its director, Vincent Munier, previously made The Velvet Queen , a swooning study of his and writer Sylvain Tesson’s search for snow leopards in Tibet. This time round, Munier places his father Michel, a naturalist, and his own teenage son Simon at the centre of the action; we experience the film largely through Simon’s bright eyes as Michel teaches him abou
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Whispers in the Woods review – paddling in the moonlight in tender study of human-animal interaction, Director Vincent Munier takes his father and son into the Vosges forest in France and finds lynx, serene foxes and deer Cannily timed to overlap but also contrast with the BBC’s Blue Planet III, this French nature documentary embodies a very different way to go about things. Instead of the detached, friendly style of David Attenborough with his generous sprinkle of zoological facts and figures, Whispers in the Woods is a more emotionally driven, visually stylised work that emphasises the interaction of the human and the animal realm. Its director, Vincent Munier, previously made The Velvet Queen , a swooning study of his and writer Sylvain Tesson’s search for snow leopards in Tibet. This time round, Munier places his father Michel, a naturalist, and his own teenage son Simon at the centre of the action; we experience the film largely through Simon’s bright eyes as Michel teaches him abou
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