Review of Too Early/Too Late

This is a French/Egyptian documentary featured in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, I could find almost no critics review for it at all, I just had to watch and make my own mind up about it. Basically the whole film is a sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers. We see an Egyptian town while circling a roundabout, numerous French farm fields and countryside, birds' eye view and distant panning shots of French and Egyptian cities, train tracks, sand covered lands, lakes, hundreds of Egyptian people passing under a structure (the longest sequence, 10 minutes), a journey down a road, and finally some black-and-white footage of war-time Egypt. No story, no characters and no actors, nothing happens, you're just looking at some lands and stuff while Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi or Gérard Samaan narrate, reading out facts about each place, not exactly entertainment, there are some nice things to see, but not the sort of documentary I'd recommend to people. Okay, at least once!