Gillian Anderson and “The Age of Stupid” Film Premiere, London at The Insider

“The Age of Stupid” Film Premiere was held last night in Leicester Square, London and this was a film premiere with a difference. Billed as the first “Green” film premiere, it was not held in the huge Leicester Square cinemas such as The Odeon or Vue or The Empire, it was held in a solar powered tent in the middle of Leicester Square in the gardens.

Stars who attended included the cast Gillian Anderson of X Files fame, Oscar nominated Pete Postlethwaite and other guests included model Keeley Hazel, singer KT Tunstall, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone.

As it was a green film premiere, there was no red carpet, instead it was green, and visitors were told not to fly in to the event. The stars of the film arrived via green forms of transport including bicycle, solar powered car or rickshaw and it was a decidedly casual affair. The film is crowd funded and had a very green budget of a mere £450,000.

The film is due for UK release on March 20th

Film Plot:

The film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

The Verdict:

These types of film are normally of a dual purpose, one being a film, secondly and primarily to deliver a very powerful message to make people sit up and listen. Being billed as a film that will not have you in a happy mood when you leave the cinema, its designed to make us realise our own self destructive natures and our over dependance on the black gold as in Oil and formerly coal, amongst other factors contributing to climate change!

This is the sort of film that every man, woman and child should see, our question is will people want to see it, do they want to be made fully aware of “the age of stupid” that we so rightly live in and will it make a difference? Only way to find out is to release such a film, throw in some decents actors and see what happens. This is one of those supreme flop films or one that people will look back on in 2055 and think “if only”, or could be the one that will make a massive impact NOW.

Very difficult to rate such a film and even more so how well this will do in box office terms. A total wildcard of a film and as such we give a rating of Unrated reserved for such style of films which is in no way a reflection on the films quality. The message contained within this film is without doubt a strong one!

The “Green Carpet” Photos

Gillian Anderson

Keeley Hazell

Vivienne Westwood

K T Tunstall