The Age of Stupid directed by Franny Armstrong. UK cinema release 20 March/US release September
NO ONE likes being preached to, which doesn’t bode well for any film on climate change. The latest offering is the part sci-fi movie, part-documentary The Age of Stupid. Set in 2055 on a flooded, damaged, inhospitable Earth, a lone man, played by Pete Postlethwaite, guards a historical archive and bemoans that earlier generations did not prevent climate change.
It is worthy, though not riveting, cinema, but it has a very clever feature: much of the film is a patchwork of real news…
