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 Opened December 14, 2012  1 hr 37 min    Trashed - If you think waste is someone else's problem...think again. Jeremy Irons looks at the risks to the food chain and the environment through pollution of our air, land and sea by waste. The film reveals surprising truths about very immediate and potent dangers to our health. it is a global conversation from Iceland to Indonesia between the film star Jeremy Irons and scientists, politicians and ordinary individuals whose health and livelihoods have been fundamentally affected by waste pollution. Visually and emotionally the film is both horrific and beautiful: an interplay of human interest and political wake-up call. But it ends on a message of hope: showing how the risks to our survival can easily be averted through sustainable approaches that provide far more employment than the current 'waste industry'. Full synopsis  Cast: Jeremy Irons  Director: Candida Brady  Genres: Documentary

Trashed - No Place For Waste with the participation of Jeremy Irons, looks at the risks to the food chain and the environment through pollution of our air, land and sea by waste. The film reveals surprising truths about very immediate and potent dangers to our health. It is a global conversation from Iceland to Indonesia between the film star Jeremy Irons and scientists, politicians and ordinary i ndividuals whose health and livelihoods have been fundamentally affected by waste pollution. Visually and emotionally the film is both horrific and beautiful: an interplay of human interest and political wake-up call. But it ends on a message of hope: showing how the risks to our survival can easily be averted through sustainable approaches that provide far more employment than the current 'waste industry'.(c) Official Site Unrated, 1 hr. 37 min. Documentary, Special Interest Directed By: Candida Brady In Theaters: Dec 14, 2012 Limited On DVD: Apr 22, 2013 Blenheim Films - Official Site

Trashed: Cannes Review 5:48 PM PDT 5/21/2012 by Neil Young

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The Bottom Line Jeremy Irons' engaging presence elevates an otherwise by-the-numbers clarion-call for environmental responsibility.

Venue Cannes Film Festival (Out of Competition - Special Screenings)

Director-Screenwriter Candida Brady

Cast Jeremy Irons

Candida Brady's ecological documentary stars Oscarwinner Jeremy Irons. Like most current documentaries on ecological themes, Trashed provides enough gloomily grim material to sink the Rainbow Warrior -- with no shortage of harrowing information, images and prognostications. Fortunately this necessary infotainment pill boasts a highly effective sugar-coating thanks to the narration and on-camera presence of moonlighting co-

producer Jeremy Irons, the widely-ired Oscar-winner making the most of his current small-screen prominence courtesy of Showtime's recently-recommissioned hit The Borgias. our editor recommends Hold Back: Cannes Review

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PHOTOS: Cannes Day 6: 'You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!' Premiere, 'Like Someone in Love' Photocall An obvious pick for green-themed festivals and channels, the Irons trump-card may yield a scattering of theatrical bookings -- although some may decry this earnest consciousness-raiser as yet another example of celebrity-focused hand-wringing. A world-premiere slot at Cannes certainly won't damage its long-term prospects, even if writer-director Candida Brady is content to competently recycle form and content familiar from so many non-fiction surveys of how man has failed to properly maintain spaceship Earth. The specific focus here is on garbage of various kinds, starting with a trash-mountain on the Lebanon shore which has spread its effects far and wide across the Mediterranean, stealing beauty from the coastlines of numerous countries. As Irons surveys the scene in a battered straw hat and scraggly beard combo that makes him a dead ringer for Van Gogh, it's clear from the outset that this is -- despite Brady enjoying sole screenplay credit -- is very much a personal project-cum-voyage of discovery for the versatile star. The classically-trained Irons has long boasted one of the most characterful voices in the business, of course, and there are many worse ways of spending 100-odd minutes than in the company of this augustly silky thespian who shows agreeably quirky new sides to his character. This slightly bumbling, mildly eccentric Englishman makes an ideal audience surrogate as he asks various scientists and experts to explain complex scientific matters in layman's language -- clocking up a fair-sized carbon footprint as he trots the globe from waterland to cityscape -- his friendly and disarming directness on this mission placing him closer to, say, Nick Broomfield than the blunderbuss interventions of Michael Moore. Brady's script has a playschool-simple four-part structure, examining the three main methods of trash-disposal -- landfill, incineration and sea-dumping -- each of which are found severely wanting, providing proof that bad habits can often die hard. Crisp digital cinematography by Sean Bobbitt present a range of disturbing images with unblinking clarity -- and eventually any grounds for optimism become dispiritingly elusive. There's a particularly shocking trip to a Vietnamese children's hospital where we see the horrific long-term deforming effects of Agent Orange. Brady does, however, contrive to wrap things up on a tentatively upbeat note with an epilogue entitled 'Solutions' -- though most of these suggested remedies are so smallscale and macro they seem like the proverbial band-aid on a gaping, terminal wound.

PHOTOS: Cannes Day 5: 'Amour' Premiere, 'The Sapphires' Photocall Something of a chorus of disapproval, Trashed doesn't present itself as a rounded exploration of the issues it analyzes, many of which are the subject of significant controversy. Interviews with governmental officials or anyone who disagrees with its basic theses are non-existent, and we never really get to the bottom of who's to blame for this betrayal of the Earth's fragile eco-systems. But while its techniques are manipulative -- it's certainly no margin-call to say that Vangelis's two-dimensional score barely lets up from start to finish -- the picture ultimately swerves pitfalls of hectoring preachiness. And, given the scale of the unfolding ecological crisis, we can arguably never have too many cinematic reminders of the last-call state in which we've semi-inadvertently found ourselves. And, sadly lacking anything resembling a time-machine, the urgency with which we must effect an overdue reversal of fortune. Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Out of Competition - Special Screenings) Production companies: Blenheim Films Cast: Jeremy Irons Director / Screenwriter: Candida Brady Producers: Candida Brady, Titus Ogilvy Exective producers: Jeremy Irons, Tom Wesel Director of photography: Sean Bobbitt Production designer: Garry Waller Music: Vangelis Editor: Jamie Trevill Sales Agent: Blenheim FIlms, Eastbourne, UK No rating, 105 minutes.

“Trashed” is a provocative investigation of one of the fastest growing industries in North America. The garbage business. The film examines a fundamental element of modern American culture…the disposal of what our society defines as “waste.” It is an issue influenced by every American, most of whom never consider the consequences. Nor, it seems, the implications to our biosphere. At times humorous, but deeply poignant, “Trashed” examines the American waste stream fast approaching a half billion tons annually. What are the effects all this waste will have on already strained natural resources? Why is so much of it produced? While every American creates almost 5 pounds of it every day, who is affected most? And who wants America to make more? The film analyzes the causes and effects of the seemingly innocuous act of “taking out the garbage” while showcasing the individuals, activists,corporate and advocacy groups working to affect change and reform the current model. “Trashed” is an informative and thoughtprovoking film everyone interested in the future of sustainability should see.