Review of The Velvet Queen (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 08 May 2023

(Mauro Lanari).

When ecological environmentalism degrades to ideological fanaticism: "I'm sometimes criticized for setting out to photograph all the pretty stuff and skipping anything ugly. Fair enough, my approach isn't photojournalism, showing the flaws in nature. It's a real choice. Delve into despair. Or celebrate beauty." If then even in the presumed harmony of Nature predators kill their prey, I no longer understand why human beings should be the only animal species to which the same behavior should be prohibited. At least until today the reality is not that of Penn in "The Secret Dreams of Walter Mitty" (Stiller 2013), but the hard, bitter, ruthless one of "Grizzly Man" (Herzog 2005) or of "Kekexili: Mountain Patrol" (Lu Chuan 2004). Now, however, is the golden age of Paolo Cognetti, former subject-writer of "The Eight Mountains" and here narrative voice in the Italian dubbing, accompanied by the soundtrack of Cave in idyllic-bucolic mood before the death of another of his 4 sons, Jethro Lazenby, which occurred on 9 May 2022.