75
Most of the footage is stunning, yet the film is more about observation than visual stimulation.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
75
Washington Post by Alan Zilberman
By showing animals in all their mundane splendor, Seasons makes a case for conservation.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by David Lewis
This is an ambitious movie that didn’t come quite together in the editing room.
60
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
The overall feeling is a lot less special than their ground-breaking work that flew with birds and swam with deep-sea creatures.
70
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
The movie’s cinematographers may hog the limelight, but it’s the sweat of the sound engineers that brings their work to life.
80
Screen International by Lee Marshall
An old-fashioned, beautifully crafted nature documentary for family audiences.
70
While it features some of the most breathtaking nature photography this side of BBC’s “Planet Earth” miniseries, this gorgeously cinematic docu ties said footage to a leaden all-purpose eco-consciousness message that nearly spoils the otherwise timeless experience.
63
The voice-over narrator (Perrin) recites environmentally pious platitudes that offer little enlightenment about what’s on the screen. This is annoying when something strange and unfamiliar is being shown.
70
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
As a mood killer and conscience-raiser it’s woefully obvious, but also unlikely to erase the sense memory of all the scintillatingly captured fauna that came before it.
75
Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud's Seasons is a nature documentary that reveals itself as a story of tragic usurpation.