Photo: ‘Gunda’/Neon ‘Gunda’--Animals on their own terms ‘Gunda’, the new film by Russian director Viktor Kosakovskiy, is a nature documentary like you’ve never seen before. Filmed at farms across Europe, ‘Gunda’ follows a mother pig (the eponymous Gunda) and her piglets, a one-legged chicken and her compatriots, and a herd of cows. Strikingly, the film avoids the use of narration, soundtrack, or inserted title cards to tell its story--in stark black and white, we see the lives of these farm animals unfold at their pace. Human beings never appear on the screen. Without the voice of Werner Herzog insisting that “the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder,” or the good-intentioned anthropomorphism of David Attenborough, viewers are able to interact with the animals on their own terms--and draw their own conclusions. Related article: ‘My Octopus Teacher’: The Emotional Nature Documentary...
- 4/1/2021
- by Trent Kinnucan
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
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