Erik BJORGAN for Parliament

Vanessa Farquharson,
National Post

Film Review: Petropolis (3 stars)

While the debate over Alberta’s tar sands continues to rage, Toronto filmmaker Peter Mettler offers us a silent, 43-minute montage of aerial shots, taken from a helicopter flying over the Athabasca river, which together make one of the most profound statements on this issue to date.

A complete departure from his previous documentary, Gambling, Gods and LSD, Petropolis is at once a quiet meditation on the transformation of serene forest into industrial nightmare and an unabashedly-presented-by-Greenpeace political statement, soaked in a subtext of shame.

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2469703

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http://www.petropolis-film.com