Synopsis
In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangered his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic: humanity has barely ten years left to reverse the trend, become aware of its excessive exploitation of the Earth's riches, and change its consumption pattern.
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Cast
- Glenn CloseNarrator (english voice)
- Yann Arthus-BertrandNarrator (french TV voice)
- Jacques GamblinNarrator (french voice)
- Salma Hayek PinaultNarrator (spanish voice)
- Isabella RosselliniNarrator (italian voice)
- Zhou XunNarrator (chinese voice)
Recommendations
- 60
Time Out
We certainly need all the ecological jeremiads we can get. But must they be so numbingly pedantic? - 60
New York Daily News
More mournful than alarmist, Arthus-Bertrand's film goes beyond global warming to look at life out of balance, through a lens darkly. - 50
Village Voice
While Close's testimony is sufficiently terrifying, moving toward an apocalyptic vision of climate-change catastrophe, the urgency of her tone is belied by the placidity of the film's visuals. - 40
The New York Times
We've heard it all before, if not in the schoolmarmish tones of Glenn Close, whose patronizing narration ("The earth is a miracle") makes the film feel almost as long as the life of its subject.
