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Les Gardiennes de la Planète (2023)

Documentary | 82 minutes
2,70 10 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 82 minuten

Alternative title: Whale Nation

Country: France

Directed by: Jean-Albert Lièvre

Stars: Jean Dujardin

IMDb score: 6,5 (305)

Releasedate: 22 February 2023

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Les Gardiennes de la Planète plot

This documentary takes the viewer on a journey of discovery to the special world of whales. Based on the book by Heathcote Williams, the film shows us the hidden society of these extraordinary mammals, with their complex and incredibly rich social lives. A nature film about the protectors of our planet.

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De filosoof

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This documentary about whales has an original approach – it's based on a poem about whales and I think it tries to portray that poem – but I don't think it's a successful experiment. It starts with the narrator's voice speaking on behalf of the whales (“we whales…”) which has a somewhat childish effect and the content – the story of whales from evolving from land to sea animals about 50 million years ago to how man destroys life on Earth and also didn't spare the whales when the whales are important to life including man - barely gets past what you already know as a layman and certainly doesn't have the scientific finesse or insights of an Attenborough (because the basis is a poem and not science). Probably because there is so little content, half the time they have seemingly random pop songs placed under the images instead of the narrator's voice. Those images are beautiful – and sometimes a bit vague or artistic – but they can hardly save the documentary.

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mrklm

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Inspired by the book of the same name written in poetic form by John Henley Heathcote Williams, who died in 2017, also an environmental activist and that is clearly noticeable. He regarded the whales as 'the protectors of our planet', according to Tom Waes' lyrical commentary. This is a great hymn to these imposing and photogenic animals, so it comes as no surprise that this is filled with pretty pictures, the seemingly soothing whale song (the meaning of which is still completely unclear), and a loungey jazz score. The unfortunate combination of authentic images and animations makes this a nice visual wallpaper and fortunately there are also the necessary scientific facts, but after 80 minutes you have had enough of those whales. And I had the unpleasant feeling that this documentary is especially good for whale watching, and that was certainly not the intention. The commentary in the original French version is by Jean Dujardin (The Artist, An Officer and A Spy).

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gizzegiz

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Beautiful images, absolutely! But although I am a big fan of Tom Waes, I didn't really like his voice here and also not how he spoke about 'we whales'.

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