DVD Release: Bestiaire
DVD Release Date: Feb. 19, 2013
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: KimStim/Zeitgeist
The eyes have it in Denis Côté's Bestiaire.
The 2012 documentary film Bestiaire is a unique cinematic examination on humans’ fascination with animals
Directed by Denis Côté, Bestiaire offers a mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people as seen through multiple seasons at a Quebec safari park. A deceptively simple visual essay about the act of looking, the film lacks a traditional narrative as it blurs the line between observer and observed. Still, there is a sense of dramatic tension in each of the film’s carefully framed shots: a cage door under attack from a growling lion; the scurrying striped legs of zebras in a pen; the long stare of a bull, straight into camera.
Directed by Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté, the striking and contemplative Bestiaire, a example of “pure cinema’ if ever there was one, was recently...
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: KimStim/Zeitgeist
The eyes have it in Denis Côté's Bestiaire.
The 2012 documentary film Bestiaire is a unique cinematic examination on humans’ fascination with animals
Directed by Denis Côté, Bestiaire offers a mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people as seen through multiple seasons at a Quebec safari park. A deceptively simple visual essay about the act of looking, the film lacks a traditional narrative as it blurs the line between observer and observed. Still, there is a sense of dramatic tension in each of the film’s carefully framed shots: a cage door under attack from a growling lion; the scurrying striped legs of zebras in a pen; the long stare of a bull, straight into camera.
Directed by Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté, the striking and contemplative Bestiaire, a example of “pure cinema’ if ever there was one, was recently...
- 2/4/2013
- by Laurence
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