Microcosmos
1996 · 80 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 11,867 VOTES · DIR. Marie Pérennou, Claude Nuridsany
Overview
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It 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.
Dialogue Timeline — 14 lines
00:00:47 MICROCOSMOS
00:04:09 A meadow in early morning
00:04:10 somewhere on earth.
00:04:14 Hidden here is the world as wast as our own
00:04:17 where the weeds are like inpenetrable jungles
00:04:20 stones are mountains
00:04:23 and even the smallest pond becomes an ocean
00:04:29 Time passes differently here
00:04:32 an hour is like a day
00:04:34 a day is like a season
00:04:36 and the passing of a season is a lifetime.
00:04:41 But to observe this world...
00:04:43 ...we must fall silent now...
00:04:45 ...and listen to its murmurs.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed14
Dialogue density0.2 lines / min
First line00:00:47
Final line00:04:45
Production Record
DirectorMarie Pérennou, Claude Nuridsany
LanguageFrench
Budget$5,750,000
Revenue$1,433,008
IMDb votes11,867