Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé
Movie| Title | Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé |
| User score | 6.8 |
| Release date | Mar 21, 2007 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Jean Painlevé |
| Production country | FR |
| Run time | 315 min. |
The mesmerizing, utterly unclassifiable science films of Jean Painlevé (1902-89) have to be seen to be believed: delightful, surrealist-influenced dream works that are also serious science. The French filmmaker-scientist-inventor had a decades-spanning career in which he created hundreds of short films on subjects ranging from astronomy to pigeons to, most famously, such marine-life marvels as the sea horse and the sea urchin.
