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  • Directors: F. Percy Smith
  • Format: Black & White, Colour, Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Bfi Video
  • DVD Release Date: 28 May 2007
  • Run Time: 215 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000MGAW78
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,950 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Predating David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau, there was Jean Painleve, a pioneer in the realm of science films, capturing on film, a host of mysterious creatures such as vampire bats, seahorses, octopi and squid crystals.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Creepy and Surreal Nature Documentarys, 19 Sep 2007
By Martin Smith "musicbymartin" (The Industrial North) - See all my reviews
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This is as far from a David Attenborough nature doc as it's possible to get. Msr Painleve is French, so these films are infused with a visual and verbal poetry and a wonderful sense of design (you the impression that you are looking into an aquarium most of the time rather than looking into the sea but this matters little).

He hung around with surrealists like Andre Breton and Luis Bunuel, so these films have more than a slight whiff of the surreal about them. The scenes showing an octupus crawling menacingly along a beach are one of the most surreal things I've seen, even though it's perfectly real!

Most of the films are underwater nature studies, but there is also a bizarre early claymation of the Bluebeard story and a couple of other curious.

Music fans should take note of this release. Pierre Henry scores one film - Duke Ellington another, and the early electronica really fits strange imagery on show. The bonus disk has the films stripped of commentary with a new soundtrack by Yo La Tengo, minimalist and instrumental, but still rather good.
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5.0 out of 5 stars seahorse reproduction and other marvels, 22 Nov 2008
By Colin J. Herd "colin j herd" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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i ended my last review with the words 'fascinating and strange' and that seems as good a place as any to start this one. This dvd features a selection of films by Jean Painleve, some from as early as 1927 and through to the late 70s. My favourite film is the one about seahorses. This film, which shows a male seahorse giving birth, is only 17 minutes long and it is JUST EXTRAORDINARY: beautiful, bizarre and 'balletic'. Don't miss the 'love life of the octopus' either.

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