After the international success — both artistic and commercial — of their documentary film Microcosmos, about the world of insects, French directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou now present the history of the Universe in Genesis, released in cinemas in France and Germany in October.

From the Big Bang to the first simple and ordered forms of life, and then more complex creatures emerging from the ocean, the familiar themes of evolution are given a poetic re-working. An African shaman structures the narrative with colourful metaphors for the difficult science. He speaks of the repeating cycle of birth, love and death — themes illustrated in the film's extraordinary footage, which somehow manages to anthropomorphize its subjects by implying that they indulge in romance.

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