I believe that there are many documentary fans eagerly looking forward to seeing those big-budget documentaries in the theater, and this year's Silk Road International Film Festival gives you this opportunity!
The "Author Power" section of the 3rd Silk Road International Film Festival brings you Jacques Behan's "Four Seasons of the Earth".
Earth Seasons (2016)
Directed by: Jacques Behan / Jacques Kluzzo 丨 France / Germany
Duration: 97 minutes| Language: Mandarin Chinese| Subtitles: Chinese
Film Description: The new work of Jacques Behan and Jacques Kruzo, the director of the highest-grossing documentary "Ocean" in history, the finale of the Jacques Behan Man and Nature series: Heaven, Earth, Man, Sea, Time and Space. By telling the story of nature, "Four Seasons of the Earth" leads people to relive the long history of the earth's evolution and rethink the complex relationship between life and death between humans and animals.
Who is Jacques Behan? In 1957, he went from film, from the youngest film emperor in Venice, to the film that won the Oscar for best foreign language film, and then to an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Few people are like him, and every turn of Jacques Behan is a success.
Most fans should know Jacques Behan through documentaries, each of his films is a time-consuming, expensive, and huge project spanning dozens of filming locations, the picture is often breathtaking, but also in the relationship between humans and animals to think about the power of nature, so they have also become the best high-scoring documentaries. In Hollywood, where documentaries are on the fringes, Jacques Behan's work has won the Oscar several times; his dedication to the innovation of shooting technology has earned him the reputation of "God's Eye".
Jacques Behan's focus on the natural world began in the 1980s, and his ingenious approach and unusual patience made him a great player in this field. "Microcosm" won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix and the César Award; "Himalaya" won several awards and was nominated for an Oscar; and the landmark documentary "The Migration of Birds" was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Following the landing of the documentary "Ocean" on the Chinese screen and becoming the "highest-grossing imported documentary", "Four Seasons of the Earth" has been promoted in all aspects as the finale of heaven, earth, people, sea, time and space ("Migrating Birds", "Microscopic World", "Himalayas", "Ocean", "Four Seasons of The Earth"). For the audience, it can be described as an audiovisual feast of nature, and the film will also be presented in the screening unit of this year's Silk Road Film Festival " Author Power".
Through the perspective of animals, the film shows the beautiful change of the four seasons, the picture is clean and atmospheric, and the use of the camera is shocking, which completely subverts the stereotype of human nature, making everything seem fresh and vivid and full of interest.
Under the delicate lens language, Jacques Behan tells the moving story of the animals' life and death, licking and licking, focusing on the unique angle of the depth of time, so that the film ambushes many interesting details, and puts forward the thought-provoking natural proposition of how humans get along with animals.
"Four Seasons of the Earth" is full of strong humanistic care, which is the first time that Jacques Behan has examined the evolution of nature through the perspective of animals, and it is the sincerity that can only be achieved after the experience of full of feelings. Unlike other nature films with people as subjective centers, the director immerses himself in lowering himself and respecting the grandeur of life.
The film closes the omniscient and all-powerful perspective, and the delicate lens tells the difference between the real life of animals and the natural habitat of human imagination. The audience opens a difficult survival mode with the animals, and after the joy of new life, the effort of growth, the struggle of courtship, the hunting of survival, all kinds of the most realistic images of life are presented one by one, so that the audience is unconsciously immersed in the awe and respect for the miracle of life.
The small and great fate of animals is shown in the film, and the collision of human and animal souls also allows humans to better understand their position on the earth. What is even more rare is that the film also pins on the director's responsibility and mission to protect the social responsibility of wild species, which is a work full of sincerity.
In order to shoot the film, he and the production team carried out a 5-year arduous creation, and the team of more than 300 people traveled to more than 100 shooting locations in 8 countries to collect materials, which shows the director's craftsmanship. It is the first time that the change of nature is shown through the perspective of animals in the documentary, and this shooting angle has completely subverted the stereotype of nature by human beings, making everything seem fresh and vivid and full of interest.
In addition, the soundtrack of the film is also quite exquisite, composed by Bruno Cuores, one of the leading film soundtracks in France today, and his original musical work "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" has touched film audiences around the world. Enough for BGM enthusiasts to stand up to scrutiny.
Jacques Behan, who is now 78 years old, has experienced the precipitation of the world, and the natural feelings are more prosperous, and the film, which strives to capture the real wild scene, is bound to hit the audience's heart again, refresh people's understanding of the existing concept of "man and nature", and rethink the real relationship between man and nature. "Four Seasons of the Earth" is also bound to cause a new round of praise, which is definitely one of the most anticipated movies in the second half of the year.
Editor: Zhao Peiyu