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Babies(Bébés)

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France · 2010
Rated PG · 1h 19m
Director Thomas Balmès
Starring Hattie, Ponijao, Mari
Genre Documentary

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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Time Out by

Babies is barely more insightful than your average Flickr photo gallery or home movie clip: it’s just infant porn for prospective parents.

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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.

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