Babies
Year: 2010
Grade: B
Country: France
Director: Balmes
Reviewgoto youtube and search for cute kittens and cute babies and you’ll get a lot of the same emotional resonance that you get from this film. the documentary follows four babies in san francisco, tokyo, namibia, and mongolia. you get the predictable sense that we have more in common than we have that divides us; nothing new there. you get plenty of “awww” moments and a few moments of fear for the baby or disbelief or surprise. all in all it’s a nice little film with not a lot of new ideas to add. it’s the kind of film that 90% of the women who watch it will enjoy because chicks like babies and cute animals. it could have been a lot more than it turned out to be if they had chosen more babies or edited differently. felt like i got more out of another fly on the wall french documentary called microcosmos than i got out of this one.
Watched in theater