
Pica Pica
1987-03-14 · 97 min · ★ 5.8
In Pica Pica Kristersson invites the viewer to be enthralled for an hour and a half by the vicissitudes of magpie life. Opposing himself to the current nature films that tend to highly compress time in order to end up with a concentrated sequence of action-elements Kristersson leaves rhythm and tempo almost completely up to the magpies themselves. With great integrity he filmed the daily, social and emotional life of a species of birds that has many points of contact with human life. Thus, the movie offers us the oppurtunity to view our own everyday existence through other eyes, from a world right above our heads, but yet so far away.
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- Directors
- Mikael Kristersson
- Production companies
- picafilm
- Countries
- Sweden
- Status
- Released
- Revenue
- USD 13,487
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