OK I admit … I love disaster films and the science fiction genre (even cheesy, predictable scifi/disaster made-for-TV movies). This film appears to have all the right ingredients – set in the future, global disaster, etc. The thing is, this is a documentary.
“We could have saved ourselves, but we didn’t. It’s amazing. What state of mind were we in, to face extinction and simply shrug it off?” – The Archivist from the film
The Ecologist magazine: “Fantastic. Knocks spots off An Inconvenient Truth”
The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September).
Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
The film will be released in UK cinemas on 20 March 2009, followed by other countries.
“I defy anyone to come out and not feel like they’ve got to make a difference.”
Caroline Lucas, Leader of the UK Green Party
“It is not a film to make you happy. It’s a film to make you sit back and think ‘What is my role on this planet?’” -
Ashok Sinha, Director of Stop Climate Chaos coalition
“It is a captivating and constantly surprising film: the first successful dramatisation of climate change to reach the big screen”.
George Monbiot, journalist & author
“I was nodding to myself all the way through, thinking ‘How can I reduce my flights?, ‘Can I install a wind turbine at home?’. It is definitely going to change my life. It was so powerful and so moving I wanted it to go on for another hour.”
Gillian Anderson, actress
“I hate this film. I felt as if I was watching all my own excuses for not doing anything about climate change being stripped away from me. And it’s tender and funny and wise as well.Can I just pretend I never saw it?”
William Nicholson, Oscar-nominated writer of Shadowlands and Gladiator
“Every single person in the country should be forcibly made to watch this film”.
Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London
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