Critical Times

Creating a stir among US environmentalists is the self-reinvention of former Vice President Al Gore – previously headed for political oblivion – as a powerful lecturer on climate change. Gore’s multimedia presentation is a hit on the US lecture circuit, drawing raves even from those who’d written him off for lacking the right stuff. That presentation is now the subject of this engrossing and often alarming documentary, in which Gore mounts a powerful challenge to those who argue that climate change is debatable, or at least not man-made. ‘Gore correlates CO2 emissions with exponentially rising temperatures, already responsible for dramatic climactic shifts like icecap melting, drought, and rising sea levels & activist cinema at its very best’ – Sundance Film Festival.