Night Falls on the Menagerie

Night Falls on the Menagerie

11 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2010

A visitors’ day in a Parisian zoo is about to end. The last guests, tired with attractions, are going back home. What happens to the zoo residents, which are not closely looked at, after the gates are closed? Tired animals listen to one another’s voices. Slowly, their calls fall silent deeper into the night, which drowns each cage in darkness. Before it becomes completely dark, the birds once again announce from afar the end of a long day.

Night Falls on the Menagerie

11 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2010

Night Falls on the Menagerie
A visitors’ day in a Parisian zoo is about to end. The last guests, tired with attractions, are going back home. What happens to the zoo residents, which are not closely looked at, after the gates are closed? Tired animals listen to one another’s voices. Slowly, their calls fall silent deeper into the night, which drowns each cage in darkness. Before it becomes completely dark, the birds once again announce from afar the end of a long day.
Producers
Original title La Nuit tombe sur la ménagerie
Directors Nicolas Philibert
Writers Nicolas Philibert

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