Wild (2017)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 80 minuten
Alternative title: Wild - Bonte Families op de Veluwe
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Luc Enting
Stars: André van Duin
IMDb score:
7,0 (173)
Releasedate: 1 February 2018
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Wild plot
In 'Wild', the Veluwe tells its own story: it originated in the Ice Age and grew into a large nature reserve with a rich diversity of life. We see the Veluwe in all its beauty and with all the challenges that the seasons bring for the animals. The buzzard, wild boar, red deer, fox, oak, water and much more are discussed.
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 11629 messages
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Luc Enting and Dick Harrewijn are responsible for the beautiful, often even impressive nature images in this technically sublime documentary. Kudos to Andel Rongen's sound design and Matthijs Kieboom's musical score. An impressive, wide range of animal species is reviewed and this film really has all the ingredients for an excellent educational documentary. André van Duin also appears to have a very pleasant narrator's voice and could easily have profiled himself here as the Dutch David Attenborough - really!
Unfortunately, someone came up with the idea to dramatize the film - a la Chimpanzee - and that decision is the death knell for all the talent behind the camera and microphone. The film is traditionally structured around the four seasons, starting with the approaching winter. Paul King and Guido Lippe wrote the appalling screenplay in which they try in vain to compensate for the (completely logical) lack of storyline with a tasteless combination of cringeworthy, often childish humor and double entendres. When Van Duin talks about 'the harsh cold' on the Veluwe, eyebrows start to frown. But when he claims that 'bellow' [a red deer's call] is "the same as roar, but spelled incorrectly", the head-shaking begins. Then it's still waiting for a dreamy boar named... [drumroll]... DROMIE! But hey, we haven't even talked about the 'crown jewels' yet and you can guess three times what is meant here by 'ascending the podium!' The screenplay is of an embarrassing level and I would like to call on Luc Enting to make a DVD version with an 'alternate commentary track' and to write a text that the makers (certainly also André van Duin], the viewers but especially gives the animals themselves the respect they deserve.
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Theunissen
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- 12281 messages
- 5520 votes
Beautiful ode to the Veluwe nature reserve (where I recently visited during the Ascension weekend) by nature film maker Luc Enting, who shows red deer, foxes and wild boars over four seasons (we see animals having young that grow to adulthood) and that as you haven't seen them before.
But what impresses the most is a fight filmed from below between two beetles on an old tree. The voice in this film belongs to André van Duin, who already made humorous animal films at the end of the 1980s via the fun television program "Animal Crackers".
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blurp194
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- 5543 messages
- 4226 votes
A few really brilliantly beautiful images - of the kingfisher for example. And Andre van Duin's voice works unexpectedly well - unrecognizable from his usual work.
What kills the film is the criminally infantile text that Van Duin has to utter. Too sad for words, and completely unnecessary. Without sound the film is fine, with it is a horror.
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