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Watch: Bébés 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – A look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world, from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo..
Plot: Babies, also known as Baby(ies) and Bébé(s), is a 2009 French documentary film by Thomas Balmès that follows four infants from birth to when they are one year old. The babies featured in the film are two from rural areas: Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia, and Bayar from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia, as well as two from urban areas: Mari from Tokyo, Japan, and Hattie from San Francisco, USA.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 7,250
	68% | RottenTomatoes
	63/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 117 Popularity: 6.186 | TMDB

Reviews:

A joyous celebration of the first year of life
Having recently celebrated the birth of Liliana, our first grandchild, I admit I am a little biased toward babies in general and the documentary Babies by Thomas Balmes in particular. The film, however, stands on its own as a joyous celebration of the first year of life for four youngsters in different parts of the world. Filmed without narration, subtitles, or any comprehensible dialogue, Babies is a direct encounter with four babies who stumble their predictable ways to participating in the awesome beauty of life.

Enhanced by the inspiring music by Bruno Coulais, we follow Mari, a little girl in Tokyo Japan; Ponijao, another girl living in Namibia in Africa with their mother and eight brothers and sisters; Bayer (Bayarjargal) a boy who lives in Mongolia; and Hattie, definitely the most privileged of the four who lives with her apparently super aware parents in San Francisco. Watching their development over the first twelve months of life is a direct experience of the enchantment that life has to offer. The babies laugh, they cry, they play, they get frustrated, they poop, and they bask in the loving tenderness of those around them.

Needless to say, their experience of the first year of life is vastly different, yet what stands out is not how much is different but how much is universal as each in their own way attempts to conquer their physical environment. Mari becomes frustrated as she sets about getting the hang of teaching toys by attempting to place a spindle into the hole of a disc. Bayer unravels a role of toilet paper and then takes bites out of it when it is all undone. Hattie crawls towards the door during a parental ecology meeting in San Francisco as if to say, “Get me out of here, I’ve had enough of this”.

Though the language is different as well as the environment, the babies cry the same, laugh the same, and try to learn the frustrating, yet satisfying art of crawling, then walking in the same way. Of course, those in Tokyo and San Francisco have definite physical advantages over their young counterparts in Mongolia and Namibia. Hattie has the advantage of cultured and literate parents who read to her and show her books with the title “No Hitting.” Bayer and Ponijao live close to earth, naturally sitting with goats or playing among cows, having their tongue licked by a dog, and even drinking water out of a dirty stream, yet we are confident that life for Bayer and Ponijao, though culturally different than for Hattie and Mari, will survive and prosper by the loving ways of their own parents and the environment in which they live. You will either find Babies entrancing or slow moving depending on your attitude towards babies because frankly that’s all there is, yet for all it will be an immediate experience far removed from the world of cell phones and texting, exploring up close and personal the mystery of life as the individual personality of each child begins to emerge. For me, it was difficult to resist.

Babies – a Tribute to Mother’s around the world.
French director Thomas Balmes (The Gospel According to the Papuans and Waiting for Jesus) latest documentaries subject matter is very simply just Babies, but is much more than that it as we watch and learn. His film, entitled “Babies”, follows four babies from birth to their first steps. Culturally and environmentally each of these babies are from very different parts of the world. Ponijao, from Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, from Mongolia; Mari from Toyko, Japan; and Hattie from San Fransisco in the United States. The culture and environments of these babies are very diverse, yet as we learn through the film, and through these four babies, that we as humans have more in common then our perceived differences.

In the opening scene we meet Ponijao she is playing with rocks with another baby and it appears as if they are grinding flour together, so different from our western culture. Or is it? They are mimicking their mothers, just as in our western culture our children play in their plastic Little Tykes playhouses, imitating the world around them. Then Balmes introduces us to the four babies by showing us different aspects of the four births; we see Mari’s mom writing in red on her newborns feet, Ponijao’s mother covers her belly in a red clay paste, Bayarjargal’s birth seems to be a water birth in the local hospital and we see Hattie in the hospital after birth being monitored. Four lives brought into the world.

From there Balmes film is really very different in that it is purely observation of these babies lives. There is not a narrator to guide you through the story. The images are the story. We watch the babies sleep, we see them nursing with their mothers, we watch them grow. We see them crawl and explore there are hilarious scenes like the opening scene of Ponijao playing and then fighting with another baby. A scene of Bayar (Bayarjargal) taking a bath when a goat comes along for a drink of water, there are scenes of a moms group taking a trip to the zoo. Each scene speaking differently to whom is watching. I would imagine that the film would be quite different for me to watch, if I was not a mother, with those early years of child raising behind me.You could watch Babies at different points of your own life and take away something very different.

Babies seems to be intentionally designed in a way that exploits this personal connection aspect. One that provides a very personal connection of the audience with the film. While Babies may speak differently to each viewer it also seems to have a universal message. While culturally we are all different and the environments that we are raised in are different there is something universal to being human. While we watch these four babies grow, we see that these four babies share many more commonalities, than difference that divide them.

A great film for Mother’s Day weekend really a tribute to a mother’s love, and a film that all ages can watch and enjoy.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 19 min (79 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Documentary
Director Thomas Balmès
Writer Alain Chabat, Thomas Balmès
Actors Bayar, Hattie, Mari
Country N/A
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,200 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema