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Cannes has announced its closing night film: Ice and the Sky by Luc Jacquet, the latest documentary from the director behind March of the Penguins.
In this documentary Luc Jacquet discusses the scientific discoveries of Claude Lorius who left in 1957 to study the Antarctic ice. In 1965 he was the first to be concerned by global warming and its consequences for the planet. Today, aged 82, he continues to look at the future with hope: “I believe that men will still up. Men will find the solidarity that will lead the people living on this planet to another type of behavior.”
“Cannes is a huge opportunity for this film and for what it says,” said Luc Jacquet. “I am pleased and impressed, much like The Fifer from the tales that is welcomed at the palace. Showing this film in the world’s largest film festival is contributing to this huge challenge facing humanity as quickly as possible to secure its future and the future of the planet. My language is cinema. In different times, I would have made other films. But I make fierce cinema, political cinema, cinema that has no choice.”
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Film Comment‘s Nick Pinkerton on the bombast of poptism:
The rise of the rockism vs. poptimism debate corresponded roughly to the upending of paradigms that accompanied everything becoming tangled up in the Internet: nothing that anybody did would be secret now, and your music would be everyone’s. Fences put up for self-preservation came to appear merely exclusionary when deprived of their original purpose, and the fact that making a show of “opting out” of participation in mass culture is, to some extent, an exercise of privilege was evident as never before. The gesture of abnegation, after all, only takes on meaning if you’ve been invited in the first place.