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The Future Is Now! - DVD/L'avenir c'est maintenant - DVD
Description
In this entertaining film a journalist (Liane Balaban) meets “The Man of
Today” (Paul Ahmarani) who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from
greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matters! As an
experiment to see if she can turn his pessimistic view around, the journalist
sends him on a journey of enlightenment to prove that the future does matter.
Traveling the globe, he finds himself in surprising encounters with great
minds in the arts and sciences. Starting with an unexpected poetry reading and
conversation with experimental poet Christian Bök, “The Man of Today” engages
with architect Shigeru Ban, activist Francis Dupuis-Déri, philosopher
Alain de Botton, artist Marlene Dumas, novelist Rivka Galchen, leading
scientists and a ghost. Will the journalist succeed in turning a cynic into
an optimist? Will it matter? What can one person do?
2010, 91 min 38 s
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