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From the ghost town of Pripiat near Chernobyl, to the ruins of Petra, via the sunken ships of the Aral Sea, the tulip fields of Holland, and the frozen immensities of Antarctica, the photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand shares the meanings that these images have for him. He evokes the questions they pose for him, the struggles that have arisen over them, the difficulties of filming, and the very personal attachment that he feels for them. In drawing from the 500 hours of rushes from the documentary "Home", Yann Arthus-Bertrand had a wealth of choices to conceive a second film on the flagrant wounds that our planet is suffering. Far from being redundant, "Home: History of a journey " explains the reasons why the photographer/director has returned to the subject... "Unrecognizable and pitiful – a biodiversity that is constantly regressing." This is the sad overview of our environment that the photographer and firebrand draws from his many trips over the world. (official distributor synopsis)
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"It's too late to be pessimistic." A brilliant documentary. Amazing aerial shots of natural beauty and human frenzy are combined with a perfectly written commentary, read by Glenn Close. The film doesn't mince its words and I feel sorry for anyone who labels it a cheap environmental agitprop.
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Home is effective ecological agit-prop that doesn’t just criticize and warn, but also provides advice on how to fight against the issues being criticized, giving some hope for a turn for the better. The two-hour running time does not do the film any harm; on the contrary, it gives it the possibility to be more complex and remarkable. And the creators made good use of this possibility. If not for the oversimplified straightforward voiceover, I’d give it five stars because it has a MESSAGE. P. S.: I love skyscrapers and I don’t mind a little megalomania, but I absolutely agree with the critical attitude toward Dubai. This film said it for me.
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I’d be wary to call Home a documentary that presents true (objective) facts, but it works perfectly as an environmental pointing finger. However, the idea that I took home from the cinema probably wasn’t what the creators intended – a flu pandemic might be the best that could happen to our planet…
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A “verbatim" adaptation of a photographic publication “The Earth from the Air" by the same author enriched by verbal diarrhea in the form of the cheapest possible agitation. And its presence isn’t even made up for by the wonderful shots which you get a but fed up with anyhow over the two hours (director’s cut). It’s trying to be something like Baraka, but it isn’t. Not even close.
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