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Film review: The Age of Stupid

By Catherine Brahic

11 March 2009

. 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, , 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…

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