Documentary about the lives of four babies around the world

I can't wait for this documentary to come out!

Everybody loves... Babies. This visually stunning new movie simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from first breath to first steps. From Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.

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• [jáquer]

  Beautiful.

  Signed, the teary-eyed father of a seven month-old girl.

  • [dr80085]

    ditto to the letter.

    I would have thought this was beautiful before I had a child, but I would not have got all teary-eyed.

• [wilberfan]

  This trailer was one (of seemingly dozens) of previews we saw this morning prior to Fantastic Mr. Fox.

  Beautiful photography. Looks quite interesting.

• [apoxia]

  Looks like a good way of spreading some inter-country tolerance – kids that young will all develop in a pretty standard way.

• [Anonymous]

  Well it looks nothing like the depressing Up series. It’s the opposite, it looks so joyful and beautiful! And it doesn’t appear to have a focus on the parents or approach of parenting, it seems purely about the kids. The colors and cinematography look visually stunning and exciting as well, I am so looking forward to seeing this, and I usually think babies are gross.

• [Anonymous]

  when does this come out? I want to see it right now. that opening scene was just so cute I can’t believe it.

• [Decay]

  MAn… nothing more boring than other people’s children.

• [elevatedprimate]

  @Decay – Nothing more boring than complaining.

• [Daemon]

  Meh. It’s a movie about babies. Effectively home movies for people you don’t know.

  I understand some people think the blighters are cute, but I’d kill to get out of that movie theater.

  • [myusername]

    Home movies shot by National Geographic and the family lives someplace so visually stunning it takes your breath away.

    Oh, THOSE people. Are they coming over again?

• [Anonymous]

  Looks cute, I like how they play Sufjan Stevens along with it, love him<3

• [Lemnisk]

  Sounds like the Up Series, but less interesting.

  “People ask about [my daughter] all the time, they’re like, ‘Hey, what’s your baby like?’
  ‘She’s a fuckin’ baby. You ever seen a baby? That’s exactly what my baby’s like.’
  ‘But what’s going on with your baby?’
  ‘Jesus. She got fired from Target…’”
  –Louis CK

• [nevadashawn]

  I couldn’t help thinking that it would be awesome if you could get all the babies together at some point in the future, and have them travel to each others countries and experience each different culture.

• [Anonymous]

  this is awesome for studying pediatric occupational therapy!!! it improves our observation skills on noticing all the reflexes and progressional milestones!! AWESOME, plus its soo cute.

• [gobo]

  I’m guessing commenters #1 and #3 didn’t watch the trailer, and thus missed the point. Just a guess.

  Personally, this looks great. Docs about cultural differences with amazing photography, yes please.

• [Anonymous]

  It will be interesting to see how well the African and Mongolian babies thrive without a western style “overly sterile” environment while eating normal food without worrying about “allergies to everything”.