La nuit des éléphants (2014) IMDb
Extent |
Seen in 2018. Seen with English-language narration on SVT, in two parts. |
Subject |
Seasonal elephant migration from Botswana to Zimbabwe, including state-of-the-art nocturnal long-focus cinematography showing the activities of local wildlife as they continue walking through the night. |
Commentary |
Inelegant, with a lot of repetition. There is, thankfully, a sequence where the elephants cross a modern village, but this is strangely truncated and chopped up to feature in both episodes. I get the sense that the filmmakers had trouble keeping up with the herds and getting traditionally clean shots, so they made up much of the story in the cutting room. |