Babies is barely more insightful than your average Flickr photo gallery or home movie clip: it’s just infant porn for prospective parents.
Babies(Bébés)
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France · 2010
Rated PG · 1h 19m
Director Thomas Balmès
Starring Hattie, Ponijao, Mari
Genre Documentary
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Filmmaker Thomas Balmès travels the globe to observe and record the first two years in the lives of four infants. Ponijao is the youngest of nine children and lives in Namibia. Bayarjargal's family lives in Mongolia. Hattie is a San Francisco couple's first child, and Mari is the first child of a couple in Tokyo.
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What are critics saying?
New Orleans Times-Picayune by Mike Scott
It's a lovely bit of blood-pressure-lowering cinema that never betrays its simple conceit.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
As the movie goes on, these fleshy little beings turn into…well, people. And that's something to see. But Babies, without falsifying its subject, could have used a more soul-stirring sense of showbiz -- that is, a riper display of infantile special effects.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
A celebration of the gloriously mundane.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Just babies. Wonderful.
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
As a portrait of children who are wanted and loved, it's intimate and often delightful.
Tampa Bay Times by Steve Persall
It's the nicest Mother's Day gift available at the movies this weekend.
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