Hey everyone,
For your information:
Tonight (Thursday) at 9pm - 11.10pm
Here's an ambitious film, a poetic account of life inside the womb from the point of view of a growing baby. As we follow the course of a pregnancy from a cloud of hopeful sperm all the way to the drama of labour, Roger McGough reads mini-poems for each stage, and a second voiceover delivers amazing facts on foetal development. The poetry and narration dovetail nicely, but it's the images that make this so special - a foetus squidging its nose, or trampolining around the uterus, or hiccupping. Which of these moments are achieved by special effects - a mixture of models and computer-generated imagery - and which are real, taken by uterine cameras, becomes impossible to tell, and it hardly matters when the story is so well told. What must be genuine are the amazing ultrasound scans of a foetus looking as if it were made of mud, wriggling and grimacing in real time, and a pair of twins jostling each other in the womb. It's captivating stuff.
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ChaCha · 07/04/2005 12:45
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