![]() Global warming! Don’t you see these cars falling through?! But, frankly, it functions as more of a testament to humans getting too attached to routine and not taking precautions. It almost needs a cartoon balloon exclaiming Homer Simpson’s “Doh!”īut the message is that this lake has thawed much, much earlier than it normally would. But while indeed a tragic occurrence, the instances come across as more of a bad running gag-cars driving about, willy-nilly, on thin ice, and suddenly falling through. We see a couple of instances of this, one of which involves two men escaping the submerged car, and one man (not, thankfully, depicted) drowning underneath the ice. A shot of Lake Baikal, in the environmental film “Aquarela.” (Viktor Kossakovsky, Ben Bernhard/Sony Pictures Classics) ![]() People drive cars across the lake, and sometimes the cars fall through. ![]() Out on Siberia’s massive Lake Baikal, a small group of men (in separate instances) kneel on the ice and bow down.īut maybe they’re just local ice fishermen trying to see fish? It turns out, they are indeed peering through the ice, but not for fish. “Aquarela” opens with what appears to be men involved in some kind of tribal prayer ritual. Ultimately, it’s a proper placing in perspective of human tiny-ness compared to water’s giant presence. “I wanted to film every possible emotion that can be experienced while interacting with water,” Kossakovsky says in the press notes. ![]() Trickling, spouting, spraying, squirting, streaming. Sans narration and with almost no dialogue.ĭocumentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky trotted the globe to capture, at 96 frames-per-second (although played at 48 frames-per-second in movie theaters instead of the conventional 24), a surrealistic depiction of a range of the states of water (the most dramatic instances predominating) of all things ice, snow, rain, clouds, and bodies of water.Īnd all the participles and nouns of those aqua-forms: babbling, cascading, calving, clouding, flowing, foaming, flooding, fluming, fluting. An ode to the world’s water a documentary about water’s various forms, personalities, and powers. PG | 1h 29min | Documentary | 16 August 2019 (USA) ![]()
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