The well -congested film of the film on the environment - Ladepeche.fr

(AFP) - Rebellious with Greta Thunberg, meditating at the end of our civilization, dreaming of action in the canopy ... The militant film on environmental emergency has become a genre in itself, whose cinemas are full inThis early fall.

Between two appointments of climate diplomacy, the summit on biodiversity in Marseille and the COP 26 on the climate scheduled for early November in Glasgow (Scotland), the show continues in dark rooms, with no less than four films at'Poster in two weeks.

And the vein is not ready to run out: an entire selection of seven films was devoted to the subject during the last Cannes Film Festival.

In the cinema on September 29, "I am Greta" follows the journey of one of the figures in the fight for the climate, Greta Thunberg, filmed by one of his relatives, met during his very first day of "strikefrom the school for climate ", in 2018 in front of the Parliament of Stockholm.

This documentary is an additional way to get the message across, welcomed the young Swedish activist during the Venice Mostra in 2020: "Some people spread the theories of the conspiracy, say that I do not think or do not speak by me-Even, or that another person writes my speeches. In this film, you can see for yourself that it is false! ", She told AFP.

The film follows the epic of the one who managed to mobilize millions of young people and to meet the heads of state to urge them to act for the planet.He alternates images of demonstrations and meetings, from Pope Francis to French President Emmanuel Macron, scenes of the intimacy of a teenager almost like the others, in her room or making a cake with his mother.

- Overfull ?-

Other big names in the fight for the climate (Jean-Marc Jancovici, Pablo Servigne ...) speak in "Once you know" (released on September 22), designed as an introspective documentary, at the firstPerson, by Emmanuel Cappellin, a chief operator of Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

The film is intended in particular for "eco-anxious", which would be paralyzed and discouraged by the extent of the environmental crisis ...

"This film tries to carry an uncomfortable and politically inaudible voice, which is that we have a very big problem and opposite no solution," explains its director, who has planned to accompany the release of debates inSalles, from a booklet distributed to spectators ... "The goal is to create a common culture," he adds.

Doesn't the public risk too full?In this surge, not all will be able to match the public successes of "Tomorrow", by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent (35 weeks on the bill, more than a million spectators), six years ago, or "a truthwho disturbs ", carried by the former American vice-president Al Gore (740,000 spectators in France) ...

To expand its audience, the film "Bigger Than Us" (September 22), co-produced by Marion Cotillard and who intends to paint a portrait of a new generation of young climate activists, offered 100,000 places to spectators from 13 to 27years, and dozens of sessions are scheduled with activists, influencers, elected officials ...

Another director, Luc Marescot, preferred to take a step aside.This documentary specialist in tropical forests quickly realized that (his subject) only interested convinced them.He then launched a crazy challenge: to have the first action blockbuster produced on the background of deforestation of the Amazon, with hostage taking in the canopy.

He failed, but from his trip from Cannes to Hollywood he pulled a malicious documentary, "green lung and red carpet" (in theaters on September 29).