My wife and I had been hearing good things about a movie playing at one of our local theaters and decided to go see it. It's titled Winged Migration and is directed by Jacques Perrin. It is a documentary about the migratory patterns of wild birds and turned out to be well worth our time.
The photography was fantastic and there was some of the most beautiful scenery I've seen in a movie in quite some time. While there was some narrative, most of the footage was of the birds themselves. You'd think that might be boring, but it wasn't.
The review in our local paper indicated that none of the filming of the birds was computer enhanced or staged in any way. We found that hard to believe when we found ourselves eyeball-to-eyeball with a Canada Goose flying hundreds of feet above the earth. We got the sensation that we were flying along right beside our feathered friends as they made their way to their distant destination.
It was a magnificent movie and I would commend it to your viewing. If you'd like to find out more about it, go to the Winged Migration website.
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