France 2 will broadcast an event animal documentary on Saturday evening, in a box usually dedicated to entertainment programs, at 9:05 p.m. It is called "One planet, two wild worlds", and was produced by the British from the BBC, in collaboration in particular with France Télévisions. Two films will be broadcast, each 90 minutes long, first this Saturday, then next Saturday. The first part introduces us to the species of the southern hemisphere ...
It is François Morel who has the mission to tell us this film with this incredible voice, as André Dussolier did for a long time who has commented on animal documentaries a lot - a real exercise in comedy. François Morel tells what he sees, and knows how to fade in front of the beauty of the landscapes, the strength of the sequences with these animals, which literally tap us on the screen. Behind, there is music composed by Hans Zimmer which adds majesty to the image.
"I'm just a smuggler to highlight these images," says François Morel, contacted by Europe 1. "There are absolutely amazing images, images that I had never seen: we see attacks from polar bears against beluga whales, for example, or fireflies at night - I believe in the forests of North America -, with sort of attacks between spiders and fireflies ... It's extraordinary. "
An extraordinary project
Extraordinary, a word that sums up the documentary well. Everything is giant, especially production. Some 1,500 people worked on this project, visited 41 countries, toured for 1,794 days. It's been almost five years of filming, following seals, penguins, pumas, bears, chimpanzees, cheetahs, but also kangaroos, jumping spiders, horned devils and sharks in Australia.
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Seeing the images, one thinks precisely of Australia where more than a billion animals died recently because of the fires which ravaged the country. The documentary was filmed before, but climate change is omnipresent. In these wild regions upset by the changing climate, animals must deploy strategies to adapt, to survive. We see it throughout the film.
"I find that at the same time what people make me read is not anxiety-provoking", nuance François Morel, according to whom there is an important message in there: "It also tells people that we can take our future in hand. It's not just to despair, on the contrary. " The documentary A planet, two wild worlds , shot in 8K, is to be seen on Saturday evening on France 2 or now on the France Télé site.