Almost six years ago I discovered the existence of this documentary and published here on Babies and more the trailer of it and from that moment I was clear that I wanted to see it, that it was something different, that it would be worth it.
Yesterday came that time. Yesterday was the day I saw "Babies", this beautiful documentary, and I have to say that I loved to show how babies grow in different parts of the world, and especially because there is no locution, because nobody explains anything. Only images, only babies, only them and their circumstances, from birth to walking and are relatively autonomous.
It was released in 2011
Released in 2011, as we explained in its day (as you can see we have been on this work, explaining the news we received about it), it is a documentary directed by Thomas Balmès, based on an idea by producer Alain Chabat.
In it we can see four babies, from birth to one year, each in the place where they are born and live, each in their environment, each in their country and in their culture. And that is the grace of the documentary, which synthesizes the way of growing up of four babies born equal, but whose lives will be differentiated and distanced as they permeate the place where they live and the people around them.
The kids are Ponijao, who lives near Opuwo, in Namibia, Bayar, from Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani, Mari, which is from Tokyo, Japan, and Hattie, who lives in the United States, in San Francisco.
The latter, the American one, is the one we can identify with most, by cultural proximity. Therefore, with those who enjoy it most is Bayar, the baby of Mongolia and Ponijao, that of Namibia, which I think is the one that stands out the most because it is the one that moves away from our western culture.
Without a doubt, a set of experiences and direct teachings on the part of babies, very useful, safe, for see how they grow and develop, and how parents act with them.
But hey, I don't want to say more because it doesn't make sense: the documentary doesn't have a phrase or text so that everyone who sees it draws its own conclusions. I don't want to replace that absence by explaining mine.
Where to find it
The documentary can be viewed through Focus, either by buying it on DVD or Blu-Ray (via Amazon), downloading it on iTunes or using MoviesOnDemand.
Unofficially it can also be found on some websites, such as Teledocumentals, where I have extracted the video in case someone wants to see it through this medium:
Babies Edizione: Regno Unito United Kingdom Blu-ray
Today in Amazon for € 15.95
