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this s‘itory is these roles. i think this story is interesting in that the focus is generally on the hospitality industry and the migrant labour there but we tend to forget how many spaniards or whatever are working within the nhs, and that will be a big row within all these negotiations, as to when the start date for people may be having to leave begins. and we are starting to find out how much this state is so into wind and interwoven with the single lock, it is going to be massive, massive, massive. have a look at a cup stories the sunday express. eu sends us that bill for wi—fi and a trip to
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dentist. brussels would pay for broad band, and it had —— italian fishermen even after we quit the eu. spanish ph.d. fishermen even after we quit the eu. spanish ph. d. students fishermen even after we quit the eu. spanish ph.d. students will also benefit from our generosity. spanish ph.d. students will also benefit from our generositym spanish ph.d. students will also benefit from our generosity. it all comes down to what the bill will be for this divorce, how the kitties and how extensive it is. it is not quite clear sense none of this has been decided. that we will be paying any of these bills. this is all a matter of negotiation. but we have been given fairly clear integrations that there could be a bill of £50 million for commitments we have made upfront. it is not uncomplicated. it isa upfront. it is not uncomplicated. it is a contract. so, either the country decides to pay the contract or they don't pay the contract, i don't think it is very complicated. it isa don't think it is very complicated. it is a matter of people starting to see now how much we wound up and
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tied into it. more pressing issue on the front page, potentially, true blue passport reborn. do you remember those? liz hurley was her passport back. she once deutsch marks, she wants franks, she was lira. this is a £500 million project. there are figures all over these papers and i am never sure what it actually means. would it only cost 500 million to replace british maroon passports? they keep calling them pink ex mark they are maroon purple! it is fairly easy to work out the cost but it is not the most pressing of issue, is it? for some people, nationhood is exemplified by the passport. but there are people who don't know the navy passport, there are lots of people in the passport who don't
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have a passport and certainly not a pink one? you do have to remove the cover when you go through passport control. that is it for the papers this hour. you'll both be back at ii.30pm for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow. coming up next, the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases we have mark kermode. what do we have, mark? this is a very, very mixed week. we have graduation, which is a low—key and intense drama. we have ghost in the shell, controversial live action adaptation of a famous manga and anime. and free fire, the new film from ben wheatley.
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ben wheatley, we are both fans of ben wheatley. so, graduation. graduation is from cristian mungiu, the romanian director of 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, which you remember we reviewed here on the programme some time ago. this is another low—key and very intense drama. the story is a doctor, his daughter is on her way to school, is attacked, she gets a broken wrist and the doctor is just simply worried it will affect her exams. he is desperate for her to get great exam grades because he wants her to be able to go and study in britain. he is convinced that she needs to get away because the place they live is not somewhere that he wants his daughter to grow up. all he can focus on is this desire for her to get good exam grades. as a result of it, he gets drawn into a web of duplicity and corruption. that somebody knows somebody who could perhaps ensure the exam grades are ok, but only in return for a favour for a deputy mayor who needs to be moved up in his wait for a transplant. the daughter, understandably, is not pleased about the idea
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of essentially cheating. here is a clip. very intense, isn't it? it is, and you see from that, single shot, basically one shot per scene. what i love about this is, it's a perfect blend of the personal and the political. on one hand, it's a story about a father and a daughter, on the other hand it's a story that social corruption is everywhere. every conversation is, ooh, that building's being going on for ages, yes it will be a backroom deal, well, isn't everything? it's a film in which the personalities of the characters completely draw you in, and you believe in their personal stories, but you also understand it is telling a wider story, about what it means to grow up in a society in which everything seems to be sort of slightly on the wrong side of completely honest. as is so brilliant with this director, what he manages to do is get that point across, but never sounds hectoring, you never feel like what you're watching is a political statement. what you feel you're watching is a really intense drama in which the doctor, for example, he's concerned about his daughter, but has a mistress.
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at one point he says to his wife, everyone cheats in theirfinal exams. she says, i didn't. and he says, yes, and look where it got you. it's an interesting film about guilt and complicity. some people have compared him to michael haneke, haven't they? because lots of bad things are happening under the surface of the superficially normal society. although i think, personally, i think there's a lot more tenderness, a lot more humanity in what's happening here. haneke‘s films are terrific, but they're very harsh, very sharp, sometimes accusatory, i think. ghost in the shell. yes, 0k. live action adaptation of a celebrated manga, and a very famous 1995 anime, which people revere for very good reasons. scarlettjohansson is major, a human ghost in a cyber shell in the future. she's a person, she's a robot, she's a weapon. the film has become the cause of some controversy about whitewashing, about the fact that scarlett joha nsson was cast in this role. it has to be said, the director of the ‘95 anime has said, and i quote, "there is no basis for saying that an asian actor must
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"portray that character". it a controversy that has dogged the film, to some extent. like the plot of the film itself, you can look at this and think, it's a soul of one thing transplanted into a shell which is slightly artificial and slightly more glossy. however, i was strangely impressed by it. i went in with fairly low expectations. and i thought it looked terrific. i think it does a very good job of evoking the future world. people have talked about it looking like blade runner, it looks more like the fifth element, oddly enough. a very cluttered future. i was never bored. i found that, yes it changed and simplified the narrative to some extent, and loses some of the melancholy and depth of its predecessors, but as a piece of multiplex entertainment, it was better than i expected it to be by quite some distance. free fire. ok, so. the new film by ben wheatley. i'm a huge fan of ben wheatley. the story is in boston in the 19705 there is an arms deal going down between a group of people,
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all of whom are variously incompetent. the whole thing looks very volatile and looks like at any moment it could fall apart appallingly, and of course it does. here's a clip. 0k, just try not to hit any of the metalwork, because i don't want to get any of those bling burns on my new. . . suit. sorry, what was that? this is from savile row... i don't know about you guys, but i for one think vern‘s merchandise is a real gas. my guess is you're whatever you're paid to be, pal. do you see what you did here? gunfire. good. 0k...
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i'll overlook it this time. laughter. is there a lot of that? there is. what i really like about it is this, on the one hand it's a tense drama about a bunch of people in a warehouse, all of whom are armed and all whom are fighting each other in various different ways. however, it also has a kind of screwball comedy element. the best way of describing it, it's like a silent movie, slapstick sensibility, but with a soundtrack which reminds you of those loony tunes cartoons, that is really, really brilliantly put together. it keeps you on the edge of your seat. it's tense, but also very, very comic. it's also very nihilistic. the idea is that all of these people are variously untrustworthy and incompetent. they're all laughed at, from their ridiculous clothes and their foolish mannerisms. vern keeps saying "watch
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and vern, watch and vern." what i liked about it, i think what ben wheatley and his film making partner amyjump managed to do is make it a cross—genre film, which they always do. 0k, yes, it's a thriller, but also a comedy, but it's a very nihilistic comedy. it's a comedy about the fact that if you take... people have compared it to, they say it's like the last movement of reservoir dogs stretched out... it's not. it's like that sequence in naked gun 21/2, when there's the close—range gunfight, with two people hiding behind the same dustbin, but it's like that, but stretched over 90 minutes. it has an absurd edge to it. it passed the six laughs test in the first ten minutes. it's passed the six laughs test in the last two minutes. you were laughing all the way through. i'm laughing at you talking about it! 0k, fine, so it's me you're laughing at! but cillian murphy, brie larson, sharlto copley, armie hammer, a really terrific cast, and every single one of them clearly rising to the challenge of this, thinking it's a great script. it's beautifully mapped out. i know nobody ever comes out of the cinema and says this,
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but the editing is amazing. laughter. i think you sold that quite well. good! the best of the week is get out. this is out in cinemas at the moment. have you seen this yet? no, i haven't see it yet. ok, you really should. it's described by its director as a social thriller, and it's very much influenced by rosemary's ba by and the stepford wives. but it also alludes to other horror movies like red state and green room and also to films like tales from the hood and to sleep with anger. it's a sort of horrifying satire about racism in post—racial america, about liberal, rich white people, with this broiling undercurrent of racism. i saw it in a packed cinema and it really played to the crowd. it's done terrifically well and i think it's great. briefly, edge of 17 is your dvd. a coming—of—age drama that appears to be written and directed by someone who actually likes the protagonist. it's smart, funny, intelligent and terrific performances from hailee steinfeld and woody harrelson. and kelly fremon craig who wrote
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and directed it, i think, has done a terrificjob. i thought it was really touching, very tender and very funny. since this is our last film review and i am on holiday from tomorrow, i'm taking it with me. very good, you will enjoy it, you'll enjoy it, but you have to go and see free fire at the weekend. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week. thanks for watching, enjoy the movies. goodbye. good evening. we've had ourfair number of april showers today, but tomorrow looks drier for the majority. there are still a few sharp showers to come, particularly across eastern parts of scotland this evening. they are fading further west. that process will continue through the night and as a consequence under the clearing skies, still fairly lengthy nights, it will be a cold night.
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some showers in the north—east of england, but for most of us under those starry skies, temperatures will fall to 5 or 6 degrees in towns and cities, but significantly lower in the countryside, with frost in scotland and northern ireland, leaving fog patches in the valleys and possibly in england to start our monday morning. the best of sunshine will be through the morning hours, the north—east of england perhaps an exception. there could still be a shower in north—eastern areas, but some of the best sunshine through the afternoon could be found around our coastlines. very similarfor england and much of wales as we head into monday, but more cloud and some rain in the west.
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