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148 | Baldassare Scolari a thunderstorm, masses of water flood the logging settlement and destroy it. Linzi’s daughter is killed in the process. This event finally breaks up the already tense relationship with his wife, who cannot forgive that instead of staying with his family in the hour of need, Linzi went into the virgin forest to prevent his colleagues from cutting down the last part of it. The film is very topical because it shows us the catastrophic conse quences of the excessive clearing of forests not only in terms of climate change but also in terms of people’s concrete lives. In the summer of 2021, when enor- mous amounts of rain devastated large regions of Europe and Asia, this film should be understood as an important alarm call: this is not happening for the first time and, according to climate research, it’s likely to happen more and more often. It remains to be seen whether an animistic re-sacralization of nature can be sufficient to counteract ecological destruction. The fact is that warning signs have been around for years and they are increasing in number. It is time to finally take these warning signs seriously – not only in the cinema! Filmography A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, UK/US 1971). Asa Ga Kuru (True Mothers, Naomi Kawase, JP 2020). Casino (Martin Scorsese, US 1995). Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, UK/US 2006). La noche mágica (Bad Christmas, Gastón Portal AR/UY 2021). La Nuit des Rois (Night of the Kings, Philippe Lacôte, CI/FR/CA/SN 2020). Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, FR/IT 1967). Mo Er Dao Ga (Anima, Cao Jinling, CN 2020). Nuevo Order («New Order», Michael Franco, MX/FR 2020). Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić, BA/AT/RO/NL/DE/PL/FR/NL/TR 2020). Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, US 1952). True Romance (Tony Scott, US 1993). Zheltaya Koshka (Yellow Cat, Zheltaya Koshowa, KZ/FR 2020). www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/2, 143–148