hello, welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's releases is jason solomons. good to see you, what have you been watching this week? we go to paris for the final portrait of swiss artist alberto and his patient subject. and the film directed by sta nley subject. and the film directed by stanley tucci. then the weather is on the agenda. as it always is at the weekend but this time it's extreme weather as we follow al gore and a series of presentations around the inconvenient sequel, a follow—up to the oscar—winning inconvenient truth. and in the hitman's bodyguard, ryan reynolds meets samuel ljackson and it's love at first sight, well, not really. final portrait, i am a massive stanley tucci fan as an actor. he has directed before, i don't think i have seen any of them looking at the list. how does this work out? there

was a famous one where he played a restau ra nt was a famous one where he played a restaurant owner with his brother. sta nley restaurant owner with his brother. stanley doesn't pop up in this film although tony who played his brother does, playing a brother interestingly. this is a story i didn't know and a story stanley tucci, was strolling around in paris yea rs tucci, was strolling around in paris years ago and picked up this memoir ofan years ago and picked up this memoir of an american writer called james lord. this is what the story is based on. james lord himself is his memoir. if you know his work and there is an exhibition at the tate in fact, i urge you to see that, this does feature that work. he got famous for the sculptures trying to get to the essence of humanity in an absurd word. stanley tucci doesn't concentrate on the dark heart, more the struggle of the ash to say and

the struggle of the ash to say and the pain it is to sit for that artist because he can't make up his mind when the work is finished, if ever. here they're trying to work out how long he should book a vacation for. the end of the week, yeah. i see. i could vacation for. the end of the week, yeah. isee. icould change it again. i would like to know how many days do you need? i don't know. i think it would be great to work for another week. a week? a week, yes, i think a week would be good. no, a week is fine. that's fine. i can just move my flight to next wednesday, would that? wednesday. yes. wednesday is good. fine. let's say wednesday. 0k. yes. wednesday is good. fine. let's say wednesday. ok. good. but then, you know. what? there is no question of the portrait ever being finished.

no, of course. and that's the great geoffrey rush. it is. sometimesl love him and sometimes he can be, what we call a ham. he can dominate the film, unbalances it. i did worry about him here. he is quite sort of reined in there, there is a lot of smoking and staring at pictures, challenging portraits, like are you talking to me? we also get a lot of the scrape of the art, the stuff, where he worked is beautifully ca ptu red where he worked is beautifully captured by the same cameraman from the king's speech. this bit is very well done. the film takes a lot of life from the cafe paris kind of stuff, the stuff that stanley tucci relishes in, cafe scene where is they drink wine and hard boiled eggs and meet prostitutes and swirl around and it's that art, it's a romantic vision of the artist you wa nt romantic vision of the artist you want from a film about an artist in

paris. you get that struggle but also the flamboyance and indulgence with that romanticively. it's sta nley with that romanticively. it's stanley tucci film, he is very much there, it's a character actor directing. he is indulgent to the acting and let's the funny bits stay in there. it's a serious subject but it's very elegantly and lightly done. it's enjoyable. the way you describe the cafe scenes, i love that, visually it's fantastic. but it can be a cliche. absolutely. it almost goes there and deals with a new subject, a fresh and he is almost the audience oh, god i have to put up this with annoying prostitute coming in and taking attention away from me. never being able to be on time or finish this portrait. it's very much about that, i think it's done beautifully here.

the artist at work. and inconvenient sequel, i got nervous, because you said flip chart. i think it's power point presentation these days. in the first it was, an inconvenient truth was a huge success and... won an oscar. it also changed perception of al gore, who was this dull politician at the time and what it did, it was shown in schools everywhere, it sort of proved that climate change was happening. it seemed up necessary to do so now but u nfortu nately seemed up necessary to do so now but unfortunately obviously, al gore seems to feel the need to do so. his life has changed much. he narrowly missed out on being president and he has become this travelling salesman for climate change going around teaching people how to do fairly dull presentations on a power point around the world but also we get a film in which extreme weather features. it's cinematic extreme weather, unfortunately. but there is is also the fact that some people

still don't believe this stuff is happening. he still needs to convince people. i need no convincing that fracking is probably not good for the earth and wind turbines and solar panels are, but it's difficult to get the world to turn around. it's a look at this. u nfortu nately, turn around. it's a look at this. unfortunately, jane, and i say this with heavy heart, it's really boring. ok. oh, no! because i was just watching the clips we are playing here, iwas just watching the clips we are playing here, i was thinking this looks like a busman‘s holiday for a journalist, looks like possibly a interesting documentary and i am thinking are people going to pay whatever they pay now to see it at the cinema? i mean, if they did, it's supposed to be a cure for non—believers in climate change, i think it's more a cure for insomnia. spectacular as glaciers are, they're moving at a faster pace than this film. the cause itself needed a much better film, a film. the cause itself needed a much betterfilm, a more inspiring film thanit betterfilm, a more inspiring film than it gets. it looks like

propaganda for the people who believe in climate change, it's an easy stick to beat people. look how boring that film is. it's a shame because it's a vitally important subject treated with deathly dull scenario. all right. hitman's bodyguard, is that boring?|j wouldn't call it boring. although it is interesting because it's supposed to be this light—hearted summer caper in which the light—hearted ryan reynolds who we have seen in deadpool as a foul—mouthed superhero and samuel ljackson, famous for his expletives and the works of tarantino. they expletives and the works of tara ntino. they couldn't expletives and the works of tarantino. they couldn't getjohn travolta so they got ryan reynolds. you definitely get a first here, there is a sort of gun fight and car battle on the streets of coventry, which has probably never happened in cinema history before.

congratulations for that. ryan reynolds is supposed to be escorting samuel ljackson to the hague where he is going to give witness at the trial of a russian warlord played by gary oldman doing a russian accent. but they argue, they get lost. of course because they feel that the film is flagging they must get a laugh by having the two of them hide away with nuns on the run. ok. one more! 0k.

ok. you just told me that was the best bit. it's one of the bits we can show. there is no swearing or violence. it's very flippant and that's all fine. then non—stop violence and some of it you want to treat in a cartoonish way but in tom and jerry they get squashed, it's funny. the violence felt real, it hurts. yet no one is getting hurt. inconsequential violence becomes dull, almost soul—destroying while you watch so much of it, i felt that. it's not the language, some is colourful and swearing, it can be fun. it isn't in this. even when they have a fight in a store and a canal in amsterdam it never reaches, the fighting isn't funny and seeses to be so. when you say is it boring, yes, i found it to be so. when you say is it boring, yes, ifound it dull in to be so. when you say is it boring, yes, i found it dull in that respect, it wasn't inventful fighting. i thought it was plodding and reduced to ryan reynolds saying

you are going to swear again in a minute. he does. what is the best out? if you haven't been on holiday this year or have stayed in the uk and it's been wet how about a summer holiday with the odyssey, it's about a french jacques cousteau. he was remarkable in what he did. this is about him, and his marriage and his son. it's a very french film. look at those hats, you couldn't get better than that. this is also about ecology and other sort of clips of the antarctic that we saw in the al gore movie. it strikes me it would bea gore movie. it strikes me it would be a better place without all these film crews. it's the most beautiful

film crews. it's the most beautiful film of the summer. the dvd, a blast from the past you brought us.|j don't want to make anyone feel old oi’ don't want to make anyone feel old or young, 50 years old it is this year, it's out on dvd, the graduate with dustin hoffman. anne bancro ft is anne bancroft is the older woman playing on hoffman. it's still pretty crazy after all those years. thank you very much. my highlight this week may be your russian accent, we can discuss that later. lovely to see you. thank you very much. that's just about it for this week.

enjoy your cinema—going. thank you for watching. see you next time, bye. hello. good evening. the weekend is here. the prospects look good for many parts of the country. today we have had a lot of showers, it won't be as wet this weekend. storms as well, a cluster of them has pushed to the north sea. this area of rain brought an end to the cricket at edgbaston and that rain is pushing across the midlands and to east anglia in the next few hours, then it's out of the way. things calm down, the winds not so gusty. the rain clears and we keep showers going to the north—west. temperatures down to about 11 or 12 where they've been the last couple of nights. for the weekend we should see good spells of sunshine. for a while into sunday, as well. showers will be fewer than today but a chance of rain arriving in the south—west later in the weekend. into the start of the weekend,

saturday sees showers concentrated in the north—west of scotland. one oi’ in the north—west of scotland. one or two showers and sunshine for northern ireland, a few showers off the irish sea to the north—west of england bumping into the pennines. the odd one for wales. through the midlands and the south—east probably off toa midlands and the south—east probably off to a bright and sunny start again. always likely to catch one or two light showers in the south—west but they will be light and won't be as many as today either. for many southern parts of england, midlands, into wales, it's going to be a dry day. the showers more likely further north and particularly in the afternoon across scotland where there will be blustery winds here. but some sunshine too. winds not as strong as today but still not that warm. i7 strong as today but still not that warm. 17 for belfast, disappointing. 21 in london is likely. for the cricket tomorrow very much on the edge of the showers. we could catch showers into the afternoon. light showers into the afternoon. light showers perhaps but into the evening the showers will fade and skies will tend to clear because we have this all too brief bump of high pressure heading our way. it comes ahead of a complicated set of weather fronts

which contains tropical air from our ex—hurricane across the other side of the conflict the other day. that will bring increasing cloud into wales, the south—west and northern ireland and brings with it the threat of some rain. further north and east across the uk whilst we will see more cloud in the afternoon, the morning should be bright and sunny and for the most pa rt bright and sunny and for the most part it will be dry. temperatures about 18—20. there is some warm air and humid aircoming about 18—20. there is some warm air and humid air coming into southern parts of the uk for monday and tuesday and temperatures could be into the mid—20s, possibly as high as 27 or so. it's going to be a brief burst of tropical air, and further north we have some rain, again concentrated more on northern ireland, perhaps the north—west of england and wales, heading into scotland. further south is where we will see sunshine and the best of the temperatures. this is bbc world news today. police

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