![]() ![]() The movie had its American premiere at the Lumiere in San Francisco in 1984. The film won a top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and was shown for over a year at one Roman theatre, the Azzurro Scipioni, which takes part of its name from the film's title. Ermanno Olmi, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Andrei Tarkovski were particular partisans of the work. The movie has been highly praised by many critics and filmmakers. ![]() Veteran composer Ennio Morricone provided the music. The magnificent photography was by the film's director/creator, Franco Piavoli. The Blue Planet: Seas of Life 1 features: 'Ocean World' and 'Frozen Seas. ![]() It is a symphony of nature, not a documentary, but a love-poem to the planet, and it reminds us of how much reverence we owe it. See over 240 minutes of some of the most startling wildlife photography ever to have been shown on television The Blue Planet: Seas of Life features amazing new discoveries and photographic breakthroughs in four episodes. With the motif of the changing of the seasons, there are moments of everyday lifeĀ love, work, sleep, and the slow but relentless passage of time. It casts a hypnotic spell as we watch glaciers, rushing of water, thunderstorms, the effect of wind on sand dunes, children at play, a farmer's domain. The movie has no dialog and is filled with the sounds of nature and the images of its wonders, selected in a very unique and idiosyncratic way but in a way that is more subdued than Godfrey Reggio's KOYAANISQATSI or POWAQQATSI. THE BLUE PLANET of Franco Piavoli is one of the great personal cinematic testaments to the beauty of planet earth. The Emmy-winning THE BLUE PLANET: SEAS OF LIFE is the definitive natural history of the worlds oceans exploring everything from the popular shores and teeming shallows to the mysterious ocean depths. ![]()
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