Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud travel throughout Europe to film brown bears, wild horses, wolves and other animals in their natural habitat.
Seasons is a visually stunning nature documentary from the makers of Winged Migration and Oceans, featuring breathtaking European wildlife cinematography that stands as its strongest asset. The film's meditative, non-narrated approach to depicting the changing of seasons and the displacement of wildlife by human civilization gives it a contemplative tone. However, the narrative structure is loose and meandering, and without strong dramatic arcs or characters to follow, the plot and ending feel underwhelming. As a documentary it receives no acting score beyond a 2 by default. The cinematography is genuinely exceptional — intimate, immersive shots of wolves, bears, and wild horses in their natural habitats are world-class. Novelty is above average given Perrin and Cluzaud's distinctive poetic filmmaking voice, though the subject matter follows familiar nature documentary territory.