'I Am Greta': Film review | Venice 2020
When 15-year-old Greta Thunberg skipped school to sit on the pavement outside the Swedish Parliament, holding a sign that said"School Strike for the Climate," director Nathan Grossman was there filming her in those earliest days. He was there when she traveled to European capitals — by electric car or train to discourage emissions from planes, and accompanied by her protective father — speaking to ever-growing crowds and calling for aggressive action to protect the planet.
As the film compiles her speeches to various groups of international leaders, it is fascinating to watch the faces of the adults change. In that first year, they didn't know what they were in for. In scene after scene, as she takes the stage, the adults look at this teenager with slightly condescending, even bemused faces, which turn stony as she fiercely delivers her message.
Some of that focus has been brutal, as the film briefly notes. In clips, we see an unidentified Fox News commentator call her"a mentally ill Swedish child," and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro refer to her as"this brat." We also see her sitting in her garden, reading such comments on her phone and laughing them off.
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