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The Last Continent

Jean Lemire 2007

Categories: Canadian Spectrum

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Run time: 105 min. | Canada | Language: French

For 430 days, a crew of scientists, sailors and filmmakers live on a schooner in the Antarctic to study the impact of global warming in this gloriously cinematic adventure, full of awe, joy and life-threatening danger. Gale-force winds threaten to dash the crew on the rocks in one of the most nail-biting scenes ever seen in a non-fiction film. Abnormally warm temperatures prevent the formation of the deep pack ice needed to stabilize the schooner and provide a birthing ground for seals. When desperately needed winter arrives at last, the camera goes overland to scenes of unbearable beauty and beneath the ice to a magical undersea world of never-before-photographed species. A marine biologist by training, Jean Lemire's acclaimed 2006 feature The White Planet focused on the Artic. The massive devastation from climate change he shows at this, the other polar extreme, is a powerful reminder of the fragility of our world.
-Lynne Fernie

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4:00 PM Sat, Apr 19	Isabel Bader	+ add to cal
12:45 PM Sun, Apr 20	Bloor	+ add to cal

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director	Jean Lemire

producer	Josée Roberge
composer	Simon Leclerc
cinematographer	Mario Cyr Martin Leclerc Stéphan Menghi
editor	Michel Grou

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Rated 3.0/5 Stars 1 2 3 4 5 miltonv 2:26 AM		Jean Lemire is no Werner Herzog who did a much better Antarctic documentary last year with "Encounters at the End of the World." However, the cinematography is stunning and the story is gripping. The totally unnecessary voice-over that told us what we were watching aided by a score that told us what we should be feeling did nothing to add to the enjoyment. Perhaps an English-language version can edit out the silly shots of journal-writing, cut the narration mercilessly, and give non-French speakers a chance to look at the amazing images and not be distracted by reading the treacly sub-titles.