Animal: an inspiring documentary (review)
The co-director of Tomorrow this time follows two amazing teenagers in their environmental fight all over the planet.
France 5 will broadcast this evening Animala documentary by Cyril Dion (who designed Tomorrow with Mélanie Laurent, acclaimed in 2015) that First advise you. Here is our review, initially published when it was released in theaters at the end of 2021.
The Earth is ruined. For real. If we stick to its first twenty minutes, this is the observation made by Animal, the new documentary by Cyril Dion (which was made possible thanks to crowdfunding) which provides a clear assessment of the state of our planet, ravaged by an irremediable cycle of ecological and social disasters of which we are indeed the solely responsible. Not very optimistic, all that.
Fortunately, Animal found a great idea to breathe some fresh air into this apocalyptic state of affairs: follow two teenagers, Bella the Englishwoman and Vipulan the Frenchman, both very invested in the environmental fight despite their young age. This is the very good idea of the film: to give organic awareness the form of a cinema duo, following a planetary road trip, going to meet people invested in the protection of the environment against the backdrop of more or less alarmist analyzes of specialists interviewed on camera.
The heroic quest of Bella and Vipulan – for it is one, which follows a very epic journey from the shadows towards the light – will end on an Edenic farm, where we dream of a more local, more respectful, more animalistic (we’re sorry but we couldn’t not do it). And frankly, it works: we entered the film particularly depressed, we came out rather confident. Fortunately some people still believe in happy endings.
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