Get in a flap over flamingo film-makers.THE CRIMSON WING: MYSTERY OF THE FLAMINGOS **** PG NATURAL history film-makers Matthew Aeberhard and Leander Ward painstakingly shot this over 15 months by the remote Lake Natron Lake Natron is a saline lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, in Africa's Great Rift Valley. The lake is quite shallow, less than three meters (10 feet) deep, and varies in width depending on its water level. in northern Tanzania. It's a hugely watchable and thoroughly engrossing documentary, doing for flamingos what March of the Penguins did for, eh, penguins I guess. The film marks the first big screen nature documentary to be released under the newly formed Disneynature banner and details the extraordinary gathering of one and half million flamingos on the shores of Lake Natron. It really is one of nature's little known and greatest spectacles all beautifully captured by the film's magnificently detailed cinematography cinematography: see motion picture photography. cinematography Art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves the composition of a scene, lighting of the set and actors, choice of cameras, camera angle, and integration of special . Visually it's as stunning as it is factual, and although Disney by name it's certainly not afraid to ditch the cutesy cute·sy adj. cute·si·er, cute·si·est Informal Deliberately or affectedly cute; precious: a cutesy boutique for children's fashions. stuff for the harsh realities of the wild. The film lives up to the hype as one of the animal kingdom's most 'extraordinary secrets' finally caught on film. So for that I'll forgive Mariella Frostrup's gravely toned and not quite right sounding narration. Where's Joanna Lumley when you need her? CAPTION(S): EARLY STEPS: Baby flamingo |
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