More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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18 October
Very nice to be with a goodly crowd at @Saffronscreen, including families with children, to see I Am Greta (2020) : hoping for a courageous presentation of a girl denied her childhood by something far more important !
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 18, 2020
And just very nice to be here again :)
Two quotations to take from what Greta Thunberg says in #IAmGreta :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 18, 2020
* Humanity sees nature as a bottomless bag of candy
* I don't want to be a person who says one thing, and does another
It is sensitively scored by Rebekka Karijord and Jon Ekstrand**, and edited so that we stay with emotions of someone (Greta's father Svante included) who believes strongly in what needs to be said, yet also wants to have her routines and life at home back and not to be there.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 18, 2020
We see more by staying with her emotions, and how an unswerving focus on what she's meant to be doing and when sometimes has to be tempered by a father who knows her intent, but has to remind her of not riskily overlooking the need to eat (or of trying to have every word perfect)
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 19, 2020
** But it would have been good for the credits to list the instruments (was that a cello, or an electric cello ?).
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 19, 2020
As does Grossman's having been with Greta Thunberg's school-strike outside Sweden's parliament from the start (which he told Monbiot was done on a tip-off [presumably from Peter Modestij, on whose idea and concept the film is said to be based ?]), and of seeing the reaction grow.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 19, 2020
Straightaway, having seen that it is brought to us by @Dogwoof*, one could relax in the knowledge that one's expectations are going to be met.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 18, 2020
* Along with other great films such as Leviathan (2012) [https://t.co/wBDR0QxqkN] or Bombay Beach (2011) [https://t.co/FHtXxegzvB]. pic.twitter.com/nX7U2HKfd5
Postlude :
I hate it when people insist you should be optimistic when the whole world is going to hell in a handcart.
— Peter Beresford (@BeresfordPeter) October 22, 2020
But being positive is another matter and i think it is important we do try and do that and not be ground down by the negatives - after all that is the plan!!!
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 22, 2020
Regarding the question of hope, do colleagues, reviewing the film at TAKE ONE, seem to have missed the point of what Greta Thunberg is doing and why ?
Lovely to welcome you back. https://t.co/6WDxUB1FpS
— Saffron Screen (@Saffronscreen) October 19, 2020
Thank you for those words - we do so love our goodly crowd.
— Saffron Screen (@Saffronscreen) October 19, 2020
Looking forward to your visit soon https://t.co/euxYTxQNNa
— RoystonPicturePalace (@RoystonPictureP) October 19, 2020
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
