Should you watch The Velvet Queen?
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The Velvet Queen
Documentary · 2021
High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers takes the adventurer and novelist Sylvain Tesson (In the Forest of Siberia) with him on his latest mission. For several weeks, they’ll explore these valleys searching for unique animals and try to spot the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach.
The sides of The Velvet Queen
- A wildlife photographer and a writer in Tibet
- Days of waiting in the cold
- The snow leopard, if it shows up
The Velvet Queen is good for you if…
- you like yaks, foxes and wild cats on the Tibetan plateau.
- you like waiting hours in silence for one animal to appear.
- you like the feeling of a world that doesn't need us.
The Velvet Queen is bad for you if…
- you roll your eyes at poetic voiceover about man and the wild.
- you won't read subtitles for a film narrated in French.
About: patience · the wild · contemplation
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