On every floor
2017, Switzerland, 32 min, age 7 and up
Marie Daniel and Fabien Mazzocco's latest documentary "À tous les étages" is a journey through the greenest of housing estates: the hedgerow and the bocage.
Imagine a city that's 100% green, self-sufficient in energy and recycles all its waste. Clean air, no housing crisis and residents with an excellent quality of life. Yes, it does exist! This is the bocage, a verdant metropolis of extensive pastures, fields and natural bush fences.
Traversed like the arteries of a large city, hedges are the link between forests, meadows and ponds. Along these boulevards, so popular with hedgehogs, wolves and frogs, new buildings spring up every year. Hawthorns, wild roses, privet, viburnum, hazelnut: green urbanization never stops, giving hedges an architectural variety in which many tenants flourish. Absolute happiness for
biodiversity
! And a thousand and one stories to live and tell, just like the striking sequences by filmmakers Marie Daniel and Fabien Mazzocco. There's no doubt about it, A tous les étages is a great film to liven up a spring evening.