There seems to be a lack of audience-friendly and unanimously critically acclaimed films at the ongoing French Film Festival at Shang. Now that's a dangerous combination.
I caught Home, a full-length science lecture with beautiful imagery and musical score. I overheard a latecomer say "Akala ko ba French?" The narration was entirely in English. I mistook Glenn Close's voice to Susan Sarandon's.
The beginning is slow and feels like a very long poem. Show, don't tell, I wanted to say. How much is real and how much is CGI? I couldn't tell. And then you get specifics. Iceland. Cyanobacteria (two guys snickered at the sound). The Grand Canyon. The turning point is the harnessing of oil.
"Faster and faster"
Fast forward to cities and industrialization of agriculture. There's not just a little Dubai-bashing here, but merited. So much sun and no solar panels? Shame, shame. Finally, global warming and greenhouse gases are mentioned. Important point: monoculture is not forest.
"It is too late to be pessimistic"
The film ends on a positive pro-renewable energy note. Again, I become proud of Denmark. I'm not sure how the 88,000 employees of the PPR group, which includes well-known brands such as Gucci, Puma, YSL, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney and Bottega Veneta, are involved here. (Surely, we need to consume less.) But take a bow anyway, Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film deserves to be seen by the whole planet.
Watch HOME here.
www.goodplanet.org
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