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Chillingly to the point
Luc Jacquet’s film highlights the terrifying consequences of unchecked global warming, says ALAN FRANK
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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
Ice and the Sky (U)
Directed by Luc Jacquet
4/5
By now there can surely be no doubt about the horrors of global warming. But how can we be so certain?
There are avalanches of empirical scientific evidence confirming that it’s happening but, surely far more importantly, its existence was definitively confirmed in the landmark 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth when the failed US election candidate and future Nobel Peace Prize winner told us: “My name is Al Gore. I used to be the next President of the United States.”
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