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Mission: save the world
MARIA DUARTE recommends documentary How to Change the World on Greenpeace’s environmental activism
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
How to Change the World (15), directed by Jerry Rothwell
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FOR many it may be incredible fathoming how a group of young hippy activists in an old fishing boat in 1971 gave birth to a global environmental movement and its poster child Greenpeace.
Their mission, as they set sail from Vancouver, was to stop the US’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, a small island off the west coast of Alaska.
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