Minuscule - The bug's private life: Vol 3
DvDRip | XviD MPEG-4 codec | 1h35mn53s | 640x480 | 128kbps vbr mp3 | 1.06 GB

Very simple and fun. They (total of 60 five minute episodes in 3 DVDs as of May 2007) are the cutest clips I've ever seen. Its guaranteed that you will forget about all of your daily worries as soon as you start watching them. They are like happiness pills. Just take 4-5 of them whenever you feel down. Unfortunately they are only available from France. Recently they won the "Best TV series for all ages" award at the Pulcinella 2007 awards: "MINUSCULE shows insects in their day-to-day existence, "at grassroots level," as if we were right there with them. Although the series calls to mind a wildlife documentary, it's a documentary in which the insects are presented in burlesque situations, with a fair amount of philosophical contemplation thrown in."

Parmi les documentaires les plus remarquables et les plus inventifs jamais réalisés, le film de Françoise Romand suit la véritable histoire de deux Anglaises qui, bébés, ont été échangées par erreur à la maternité, et découvrent, à 20 ans, qu’elles n’ont pas été élevées par leurs vrais parents. Romand embarque les survivants des deux familles dans une étrange enquête entre passé et présent, pour reconstituer les faits mais surtout revivre ces scènes clés de la vie émotionnelle des deux filles. (…) Un extraordinaire premier film. — Jonathan Rosenbaum

Francoise Romand's 1985, 63-minute Mix-Up, as densely packed as a 500-page novel, has the French title Meli-melo, which my dictionary defines as a "jumble (of facts, etc); hotchpotch; medley (of people, etc); clutter (of furniture)"—all of which describes the film's startlingly original method as well as its fascinating, evocative subject. — Jonathan Rosenbaum