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The babies in Babies are four newborns, photographed in their natural habitat in distinctly different parts of the world. Hattie is in San Francisco, Mari's in Tokyo, Baryarjargal lives out in the Mongolian steppes, and Ponijao is born amid the simple straw huts of Namibia. In the course of less than 80 minutes, we're going to follow this quartet through their first year of life, a chronicle that director Thomas Balmes and producer Alain Chabat have likened to a nature documentary that happens to focus on humans. We can cut to the chase here and say that above and beyond any sociological weight this project might possess, this film's main method can be summed up in the words of David Byrne and Talking Heads from the song "Stay Up Late": "See him drink / From a bottle / See him eat / From a plate / Cute cute / As a button /Don't you want to make him stay up late." In short, babies are cute, babies are funny, and a camera focused on a baby is going to catch the sudden mood shifts and clunky crawling and all the other ingredients of home movies. Along the way, we may pause to notice the cultural differences between the locales, as the American baby seems elaborately nurtured (maybe baby yoga classes could wait a year?) and the African baby views a world just as full of wonder and newness as anywhere else, despite the material poverty of the locale. The Namibia and Mongolia sequences are certainly more arresting than the two urban sections, because their backdrops are so dramatically unusual to most Western eyes. If those differences are colorful, the movie nevertheless suggests that babies are more alike in their development than they are different. Is this enough to qualify as a movie? Well, even if Babies really is little more than a collection of sure-fire infant cuteness, it'll probably be enough for its target audience. --Robert Horton
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The adventure of a lifetime begins Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balms from an original idea by producer Alain Chabat this film simultaneously follows four babies around the world from birth to first steps. The children are respectively in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao who lives with her family near Opuwo Namibia; Bayarjargal who resides with his family in Mongolia near Bayanchandmani; Mari who lives with her family in Tokyo Japan; and Hattie who resides with her family in the United States in San Francisco. Re-defining the nonfiction art form Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all. Director: Thomas Balmes. Format: DVD. Format Size: Widescreen. Runtime: 79 mins. Language: English. Subtitle: English Subtitles. Region code: Region 1 (United States Canada Bermuda U.S. territories). Discs: 1. Rating: Unrated. Genre: Documentary. Release Year: 2010.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful,
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This review is from: Babies [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Definitely get this in blu-ray it is beautifully shot, does not have annoying narration and concentrates on the view of the world from these wonderful babies point of view. My two year old and I both love this her only dvd as I am anti-tv.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful documentary,
By Barrie Malloch (Mississauga, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Babies (DVD)
It illustrates the commonality of how kids grow and learn. It is hilarious, touching and always tastefully done with little commentary. The film makers let the story tell itself. I would love to see a followup a few years down the line.
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Babies dvd,
This review is from: Babies (DVD)
I gave this dvd as a baby shower gift and she told me it was fine. I havent seen this particular one but another person watched and had no problem. Its a great DVD. He spent 2 yrs making it. No words.Great for an English as Second Language group.
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