After Lifetime of Discoveries, Climatologist Asks: 'Now That You Know, What Will You Do?'

Though all the awards had been announced and a week of celebrity sightings and red carpet fanfare was nearly complete, the final word at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night was not from a famous actor, producer or director but from an octogenerian French glaciologist who in a documentary film about his life exploring the icy depths of the Antarctica issued a stark—yet hopeful—plea to humanity over the perils of planetary climate change.

Offered the closing spot at the festival, the film La Glace et le Ciel (The Ice and the Sky) chronicles the life and scientific discoveries of Claude Lorius, one of the pioneers of climate science who realized that locked with the ancient ice below the frozen lanscapes of Antartica, was the Earth’s atmospheric climate record dating back hundreds of thousands of years. Directed by Luc Jacquet, maker of the 2005 Oscar-winner March of the Pengiuns, the film follows Lorius from his first expeditions in the late 1950s to his most recent revelations concerning the fate of the planet and its people.

According to Reuters‘ review, the film makes clear “that the earth is warming up faster than it has in hundreds of millennia,” and Lorius himself ends the film by challenging its viewers, “Now that you know, what will you do?”

Watch the official trailer [in French]:

As the Guardian‘s Adam Pulver writes:

And the Hollywood Reporter adds:

This short offers additional footage of Lorius and includes English subtitles:

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