Microcosmos (film)
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Microcosmos (original title Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe — Microcosmos: The grass people) is a 1996 nature film by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou and produced by Jacques Perrin. This film is primarily a record of detailed insect interactions set to the music of Bruno Coulais.
The film was screened out of competition at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
- [The film] includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching. [1]
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List of scenes
Originary of the Lévézou, in the center of the Aveyron, the "actors" of the film are, in order of appearance:
- Coccinella septempunctata
- Papilio machaon
- Operophtera
- Western honey bee and the Salvia pratensis
- Cerura vinula
- Helix pomatia
- Charaxes jasius
- Argiope (spider)
- Bombylius major
- Pine Processionary
- Formica
- Messor
- Polistes
- Scarabaeus sacer
- Pheasant
- Gerridae
- Notonectes
- Argyroneta aquatica
- Damselfly
- Eucera and the Ophrys fuciflora
- Drosera
- Dynastinae
- Julida
- Lucanus cervus
- Buff-tip
- Eumolpe
- Saturnia pyri
- Tipula
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Reception
The film holds a 97% rating on critical aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.
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Awards and nominations
- César Awards (France)
- Won: Best Cinematography (Thierry Machado, Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou and Hugues Ryffel)
- Won: Best Editing (Florence Ricard and Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte)
- Won: Best Music (Bruno Coulais)
- Won: Best Producer (Jacques Perrin)
- Won: Best Sound (Philippe Barbeau and Bernard Leroux)
- Nominated: Best Film
- Nominated: Best First Work (Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou)
- Nominated: Best Sound (Laurent Quaglio)
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See also
- Nature documentary
- Acéra ou le bal des sorcières by Jean Painlevé on the sexual life of mollusks.
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