A dive inside a wild land where nature hides some of her greatest secrets: The Alps. Steep slopes, wind swept cutting edge rocks. An air desperately lacking of oxygen. A biting cold. How do living beings adapt to those extreme conditions?
Cinematography
Drone shots that'll make your stomach drop from your couch
Sound
Wind howling like nature's own horror score
Director
Frédéric Fougea
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frédéric Fougea spent three years in the Alps, often camping at -20°C to capture animals at their most vulnerable. Some footage required waiting 200+ hours for a single behavior.
This doc helped revive France's 'nature film as art cinema' tradition, deliberately rejecting Disneyfied wildlife narratives for something closer to Herzog's 'ecstatic truth'—beautiful but indifferent to your feelings.
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