If you should never work with animals or children, what about insects? Watching the interviews on this critter-doc re-release proves that insect-wrangling for movies is a massive labour of love. Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou’s account of a day in the life of a French meadow’s little folk required a special ‘filming robot’ camera. But the wayward ‘stars’ couldn’t always be relied upon and doubles had to be used whenever the stroppy insects decided to run (or fly) away. It’s little wonder the film took three years to make…
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