Fans of Planet Earth or lush, exciting documentaries about animals should skip Bestiaire. There is no narration and when humans briefly talk, it is in French with no subtitles. The sole point of Bestiaire is observing and highlighting the artificial nature of that observation instead of pretending that observation does not affect the subject and the viewer or that the subject is frolicking naturally in the wild and the camera happened to capture it. Instead of a typical bestiaire, a Medieval illustrated compendium that meshes natural and moral verbal descriptions of the animals next to the illustrations, Bestiaire is just visual and acknowledges the limits of observation between animals and humans. If there are any moral conclusions in this visual compendium, the director implicitly draws them about the human beings, not the animals as his unblinking camera follows animals and humans in a restricted space over the course of a year. Only for hard core, art house, alternative narrative structure film lovers.