Daniel Craig makes a decent fist of the narration. But you could also do without its gush about the “incredible journey” all beings on the planet share.
Quite a spectacle, and a nice family outing.
The message: life is beautiful, precious, and precarious is hardly original but worth saying again all the same, especially when the pictures are as breathtaking – and occasionally as heartbreaking – as this.
The film-makers do a fair job of editing it together into a feature-length whole, even if we're never quite sure why they are doing so.
One Life is one film truly deserving that much-abused adjective of unmissable.
A fascinating salute to all creatures great and small.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Saturday October 8, 2011, until Sunday October 9, 2011. 8th 1pm; 9th 11am. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com
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