Also see: The Islands and the Whales review – a community poisoned > A protest group surreally led by Pamela Anderson arrives to stage a press conference, a p

Also see: The Islands and the Whales review – a community poisoned > A protest group surreally led by Pamela Anderson arrives to stage a press conference, a part of the film which could have been shot by Bill Forsyth. In answer to Anderson’s slightly testy advice to embrace vegetarianism, the islanders reply that vegetables must be air-freighted into the shops – and that has its own environmental implications. There is a tiny undercurrent of anger elsewhere, a feeling that warnings about mercury levels are alarmist and disloyal. The local doctor advising families on this points out an airgun bullet-hole in his car. I sometimes wonder if a narrative voiceover (very unfashionable in documentary film-making) could have made the issues at stake clearer, and given an informative guide to the community festival at the end. It’s a very good-looking film, with lovely images. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/29/the-islands-and-the-whales-review-a-community-poisoned https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/29/the-islands-and...