Wolff rating: NOT BAD
Plot summary: Beautifully-shot documentary/commentary on the tiny but oddly anthropomorphic world of insects.
Biased, pithy comments: Nuridsany and Perennou understand the irony of their subject material. As we watch slug sex, they play a graceful operatic aria, and the audience gets it and laughs. Aside from that, though, I found myself salivating for a little more---who *are* these bugs? What are they called? Why are they doing what they are doing? Of course, that's not the point of this film---we are to see its wonder without any more information than camera angles and editing. It works, but I guess I'm too much of a scientist to settle for just that.
Other Notes: This is more of a technical advance than, say, a narrative advance. This is the closest up bugs have ever been filmed. Thus, to evaluate it on its artistic merits (as I have) is probably a mistake, and thus my lukewarm review.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Many thousands of bugs, spiders, and goodness knows what else.
Directed by: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou.