The goal: For the first time, a tropical forest will be born before our eyes. The first push to the

The goal: For the first time, a tropical forest will be born before our eyes. The first push to the development of giant trees of the canopy through the development of hidden links between slave servant plants and animals, they are no less than seven centuries will elapse before our eyes. For years, slave servant Luc Jacquet filming nature, to excite and amaze the audience through unique and exciting stories. His meeting slave servant with the botanist Francis Halle gave birth to this historic film about the ultimate large tropical primary forests, at the confluence of the transmission, poetry and visual magic. It was a forest offers exceptional slave servant diving in this wild world remained in its original state, in perfect balance, where each organization - from smallest to largest - connected to all others, plays an essential role.
Subjective: slave servant After the huge success of the March of the Penguins and an interlude "fictional" in 2007 (The Fox and the Child), director Luc Jacquet comes to the documentary. Result of his meeting with the botanist Francis Hallé, Once Upon a Forest tells the extraordinary adventure slave servant of a rainforest. From the excruciating ordeal of deforestation until the trees stand back from the height of their centuries-old trunks, the film is simply the story of a renaissance, a return to "normal" life from the cradle of Humanity. For if it takes a few moments to break down, it takes seven centuries for a forest to rebuild - if that man left in peace.
Never donors lesson, the film and its director slave servant are that message (that man needs the trees, and that they survive it) skillfully and poetically. Example with the felling of trees, symbolized by a violent storm and a sky streaked with lightning. What interests There was a forest is to shed light on the life of these trees, the incredible adventure slave servant of these majestic and immobile beings. For this, the camera Luc Jacquet (who performs real feats on a walk in any direction, and to dizzying heights in the middle of the tropical forests of Peru and Gabon) follows the steps and advice of the botanist Francis Hallé.
The scientist is an enthusiast who has spent a lifetime studying man and try to understand the trees. He tells us of wonderful and exciting way how nature takes over. With fascinating anecdotes, he still maintains awake our curiosity and thirst for knowledge. There is the story of Cecropia, a pioneer tree, to get rid of the insects that kill by eating the leaves, developed a strategy to attract and accommodate in the trunk an ant army intended to defend. Another example is the epic battle between passionflower vine (whence come the passion slave servant fruit) and the heliconius butterfly. A series of attack against attack and who gave birth to more than forty species of insects, and more than double Passiflora vines in a few decades ... based perfumes communication system, ingenious mechanism defense or reproduction, even battle scenes (the strangler fig tree terrible) Once upon a forest is a wealth of information on the trees. The trees, citizens! Throughout the seven centuries that pass before our eyes, early pioneer trees to the reconstitution of primary forest, these stories and how they are illustrated and narrated émeuvent and amaze. The credit amounts to the course director (again, the staging is prodigious), the botanist Francis Halle, but also to visual effects, music and narrator. slave servant The former are very subtle, mixing drawings and computer-generated images with live action. slave servant All but a surprise when you know they are the work of French studio Mac Guff, behind the Dragon Hunters movies and Despicable Me. His side, the music of Eric Neveux is the height of the film and its message, air and deep. As the narrator, his voice you will certainly familiar: it is that of Michel Papineschi, doubler or Robin Williams the famous Monk character. It was a forest is a tribute to these great trees, this nature around us and we have so much to learn. Inevitably coupled with a strong ecological and topical message, the movie yet the challenge of never preachy. Following the voice of a man who dedicated his life to studying forests - "something beyond me but I appreciate the greatness, I can not bring myself to leave this world disappear," he said - Luc Jacquet makes us understand the urgency of the situation. He invites us to respect the trees and forests that reign on time when we reign over the space. "We suffer from not