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A Perfect Planet (2021)
Beautiful, but the music...
I've listened to and watched David Attenborough for decades, and every series in the last few years has been wonderful visually, taking us to places on our planet that we could never hope to visit and experience. I love Attenborough's voice too. But..it is spoiled by the droning, almost constant banal orchestral strings, wearing me out while watching. Add to that, the dramatic music when a shoal of fish gets attacked is straight from dramas when a SWAT team moves in. Ambient sound is best, but I don't mind some created sound effects like swooshing water, but a crashing booming thud when a tiny lifeform grabs some prey is ridiculous. So, sometimes it's just subtitles for me.
Bellefond (2022)
Routine
It started off Ok with a decent prosecutor trying to redeem a terrible event in his legal life by informally investigating a case related to his family, to avoid another miscarriage of justice.. He starts as a sympathetic character, I suppose, but ends up one-dimensional. After that nothing was believable, and none of the various characters convinced. Just going through the motions. I watched this on Channel 4 Walter Presents, and all the recent French offerings have been poor. Nice scenery, a plot that promises more than it produces, and who cares really? I wanted to be engaged with at least one of the characters, but no, none of them drew me in, so I didn't care who did what to whom. Disappointing.