More than one talking head in “The Issue With Tissue – A Boreal Love Story” uses the phrase “flushing away our forests,” to the point that it becomes a kind of aghast mantra for Michael Zelniker’s eco-documentary — tonally encapsulating its earnest exasperation with the world, or at least its human custodians. One can forgive the repetition, since the image is so pointed: Every year, vast stretches of Canada’s richly biodiverse boreal forest region are razed for that most literally disposable of causes: the manufacture of toilet paper. “Is there a more obscene illustration for what’s gone wrong?” asks one Indigenous elder and activist for his native environment. Perhaps, but it’d be hard to find a less dignified one.
A veteran Canadian actor and indie film stalwart here making his first foray into nonfiction filmmaking, Zelniker frequently favours punchy rhetoric and sloganeering in a bid for broad audience appeal,...
A veteran Canadian actor and indie film stalwart here making his first foray into nonfiction filmmaking, Zelniker frequently favours punchy rhetoric and sloganeering in a bid for broad audience appeal,...
- 8/22/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
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