Gérald Calderon
Nacimiento : 1926-12-29, Paris, France
Muerte : 2014-11-02
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En este documental, filmado originalmente y exhibidos en alta definición de formato de película de IMAX, Ocean Orígenes explora el mundo natural del mar, desde el organismo unicelular a formas más complejas de la vida. Mediante la combinación de técnicas de fotografía macro y micro, con material documental fascinante, esta película creativa examina una variedad de teorías científicas , Ocean Orígenes nos invita a una aventura extraordinaria - 4 mil millones de años de la evolución en los océanos del mundo. Este documental tiene por objeto examinar el proceso de evolución al mirar las muchas criaturas del mar que ilustran la manera en la vida multicelular ha surgido en miles de millones de años.
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En este documental, filmado originalmente y exhibidos en alta definición de formato de película de IMAX, Ocean Orígenes explora el mundo natural del mar, desde el organismo unicelular a formas más complejas de la vida. Mediante la combinación de técnicas de fotografía macro y micro, con material documental fascinante, esta película creativa examina una variedad de teorías científicas , Ocean Orígenes nos invita a una aventura extraordinaria - 4 mil millones de años de la evolución en los océanos del mundo. Este documental tiene por objeto examinar el proceso de evolución al mirar las muchas criaturas del mar que ilustran la manera en la vida multicelular ha surgido en miles de millones de años.
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The distinctive feature of this charming documentary on the insect world is the clearly biased commentary on the exploits of ants and bees, from the point of view of the philosopher, or the satirist, or just someone with a bit of common sense. As director Gérald Calderon travels with a camera from the Jura mountains in Switzerland to the south of France, and to Central America and Africa, insects are shown as workers, soldiers, queens with their children, killers, fighters, and great planners (witness the busy anthill). While viewers are entertained by nearly microscopic close-ups of these tiny inhabitants of our planet, they can enjoy the interpretive narration at the same time.
Director
Directed by Gérald Calderon and Jean-Charles Cuttoli
May father
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Client of the brewery
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life…
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A paean to Darwin and his theories, this documentary on the increasing complexity of life forms as they go up the evolutionary scale is fascinating in its visual images. Microscopic organisms in a tiny drop of water vie for the viewer's interest with birds and monkeys and other animals in their natural setting. Intelligence and awareness increase on the way toward more evolved species until it becomes clear that different kinds of apes and monkeys are fairly calculating in their use of tools and communication. One drawback is that the narration does not entertain on a par with the images captured on camera.
Daniel's Companion (uncredited)
En un día por lo demás normal, Étienne, un hombre felizmente casado y un buen padre, ve algo que lo detiene en seco: una hermosa mujer con un ondulante vestido rojo. Mucho después de que ella haya dejado su visión, su recuerdo continúa rondando su mente. Se enamora instantáneamente de ella e intenta todo para conocerla mejor. Ayudando a Étienne a atrapar a su escurridiza dama de rojo están sus tres torpes amigos, que tienen aventuras secretas y/o engañan a sus esposas.
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This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.
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If love is a universal phenomenon, it is never the same: the animal world experiences brutal and rapid unions, or, on the contrary, slow and difficult approaches, followed by sometimes interminable embraces.
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Is there an adventure, a drama, a more exciting suspense than that offered to us by the laborious research of the scientist on the lookout for the great secret of his origins? The film begins at the extreme limit of this noble uncertainty. Thirty million centuries ago. Three billion years. Already two proposals are offered to this uncontrollable search: the Earth will warm up or cool down? These first images, which represent the consent of the majority of scientists, attempt to show us the thermal fluctuations which govern the formation of this puffy meringue which will solidify: the earth of men.
