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Animals and More Animals

1994 · 60 min

A quiet, curious look behind the scenes of a museum waking up, patient and gently absorbing.

Overview
This fascinating French documentary chronicles the reopening of the Zoology Hall in the Paris Museum of Natural History in 1993. It had been closed for almost thirty years and it took three years of hard work to restore it and the stuffed creatures within.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • art
  • memory
  • nature
  • aging
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance0
Tension1
Darkness1
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Nicolas Philibert
Written by
Nicolas Philibert
Music
Philippe Hersant
Cinematography
Frédéric Labourasse
Runtime
60 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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