Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé (movie)
- User score: 6.8
- Production country: FR
- Producer: Jean Painlevé
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 3/21/2007
- Run time: 315 min.
Movie description
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.
