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Published: 31 July 2008

Pick of the Indies

THAT super-cinema the Prince Charles is screening the film Couscous all this week.
It is the story of a shipyard worker nearing retirement age and looking for a new challenge. Go and roar him on as he seeks to unite a warring family and live his dream of running his own restaurant. The film is one of the surprise hits of the year. If you missed it when it was out a couple of months ago, don’t make the same mistake twice. Tickets: 08708 112559.
Meanwhile, I am pleased to announce this column has made it to the corridors of power. Regular readers will recall I played a minor part in a docu-drama called the Age of Stupid, made by Camden Town company Spanner Films. Starring big names such as myself and, er, Pete Postlethwaite, the All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group viewed the film last week.
Postlethwaite stars as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055. He watches “archive” footage from 2008 and asks: “Why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?”
Director Franny Armstorng, who won plaudits for her brilliant film McLibel, said: “Our aim is to be part of the public uprising which forces the world’s governments to make an international law strong enough to prevent runaway climate change and keep our planet habitable.
“I hope we can help persuade the politicians to make the new Climate Bill as strong as the science says it needs to be.”

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