The Age of Stupid is now screening at the Gecko

In this new movie from director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and producer John Battsek (In the Shadown of the Moon, One Day in September), Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? The film visits the issues of climate change, oil, war, politics,  consumerism and human stupidity. Also starring as themselves: Fernand Pareau, 82-year old French mountain guide, Jeh Wadia, starting a low-cost airline in India, Alvin DuVernay, Shell oil man who rescued 100 people after Hurricane Katrina, Layefa Malemi, living in Shell’s most profitable oil region in Nigeria, Jamila and Adnan Bayyoud, two Iraqi refugee kids trying to find their brother, and Piers Guy, a windfarm developer fighting the anti windfarm lobby in England. DRAMA/ DOCUMENTARY/ANIMATION (M) Contains offensive lang. 92 mins UK