Luc Jacquet’s documentary “Antarctica: Ice & Sky” comes to praise Claude Lorius, the now-84-year-old glaciologist who was the first researcher to discover a link between greenhouse gases and global warming. But Jacquet (“March of the Penguins”) goes several steps further and deifies him — and if Lorius had a hand in shaping the film’s earnest, often purple, and utterly irritating first-person narration, he effectively buries himself. French actor Michel Papineschi, not Lorius, provides the voiceover, though there’s no indication that you’re not hearing the scientist tell his own story. You may be surprised to find that “Ice & Sky” is.
- 1/20/2017
- by Tricia Olszewski
- The Wrap
European news and other networks covered the death of Robin Williams Tuesday morning, with some channels starting off news shows with extensive reports. In France, news networks iTele and Bfmtv led with the story at the top of each hour, with iTele showing on-the-street reactions from Americans in Paris and and interview with Michel Papineschi, the French "voice" of Williams in nearly 30 films. Bfmtv devoted 10 minutes to the story, showing Mel Gibson speaking about Williams at the Expendables 3 premiere and live shots from Williams' star on Hollywood Boulevard. And actor Michel Leeb, who played the title role in the French
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- 8/12/2014
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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