John James Audubon is a legend. In New York, in a corner of Harlem, all around Broadway, large murals represent his superb birds. So many volatiles that Audubon spent his life observing and which, for many, no longer exist today.
“Birds of America” looks back on the life of this ornithologist artist who, in the 1810s, criss-crossed the southern United States with a rifle and a box of paints, hunting and painting extraordinary creatures. Jacques Loeuille repeats the journey more than two centuries later and in landscapes given over to industry, the figure of Audubon awakens nostalgia for a buried America.
“Birds of America” is unfortunately encumbered with an overly explanatory voice-over, but it offers the opportunity to discover Audubon’s magnificent images on the big screen. He also sings this American lament which has been running at least since “The Last of the Mohicans”: what if this land of dreams was also the ultimate Eden ravaged by the madness of men?
Birds of America
French Documentary
by Jacques Loeuille.
1 h 24.
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