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after wozniacki took the first set, she broke williams in the opening game of the second set on her way to a 5—0 lead. williams did fight back to win four games on the bounce, but wozniacki finally got over the line. evans has become the first welshman to win the rally gp. celebrations there. that's all from sportsday. from me jessica creighton and the rest of the team, thanks for watching. i'll be back at 7:30 for another edition. see you then. hello, and welcome to
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the film review on bbc news. to take us through the cinema releases this week is james king. good to see you. you too. what have you been watching? there is some romance amongst the ruins in the italian love story call me by your name, an awards contender, that one. the god of thunder goes down under. there is a distinctly antipodean feel to marvel‘s latest, thor: ragnarok. claire foy and andrew garfield battle the odds in breathe, there will be tears... let's start with
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call me by your name. i feel like i've seen the trailer for this ten times, do the producers think it's an awards contender? we are heading to awards season, so you will hear the same titles over and over again over the next few months. i do think this is one of those. the director is luca guadagnino, arguably the most stylish and chic director at the moment. i am love, starring tilda swinton is a recommendation if you've never seen it. written by james ivory, formerly of merchant ivory fame. it's a love story set in the early eighties in northern italy over one summer. it is about a 17—year—old boy called elio. elio‘s father is an academic and he invites from america, a student, an intern to help him overfor the summer. elio falls in love with the intern. we have timothee chalamet, a real rising star, as elio, and armie hammer as the intern.
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here we are. thank you so much. my goodness, you are bigger than your picture! i couldn't get all of me in the picture! it's very nice to meet you. elio! you must be exhausted... laughter every single one of these will! elio, oliver, oliver, elio. you must be exhausted! come, come. should i take your
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things to your room? my room... follow him... it is set in the 1980s... in italy, his mother was french which is why he also spoke french. language is an important part of the film. it's about this young boy finding out who he is, his own personality and finding his own language. that's why there are a lot of different languages going on in the film. i just loved it. it looks gorgeous, it's mainly set in lombardia and lake garda, and it looks fantastic. it's a young love story, a coming—of—age story. it's about the grey areas. it not one of those cliched movie love stories where everything seems neat. it's about the complexities of it and growing up. that's what resonated with me. perhaps it meanders a little but it's about a teenager on their summer holidays which is when you meander.
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i certainly remember meandering a lot! got a lot of time on your hands in those days... exactly! there's a real sense of waiting for things to happen. set in the 1980s before the internet and mobile phones. you are in the dark as to what is happening. you really get that sense. i thought it was beautiful. wonderful, it certainly looks beautiful. yeah. does thor look beautiful? it actually does. it looks very stylish. it's the third chris hemsworth thor outing. it's stand alone. there is more comedy in this one, even though the subtitle, ragnarok, relates to the destruction of thor's homeland, quite a bleak premise. it's a very funny film. two reasons for that. the success of the guardians of the galaxy franchise, another marvel comic book franchise, cheeky and funny. it seems that thor has been given a guardians of the galaxy makeover. secondly, i mentioned at the top about the down under thing. the director is a guy called
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taika waititi who has had a lot of success in new zealand with his comedy dramas. he did the hunt for the wilder people and what we do in the shadows. he brings a lovely, deadpan, antipodean sensibility to the whole thing, as well as casting cate blanchett and carl levin in there, and of course chris hemsworth. i love the comedy of it. it's really funny and marks it as different from the others. there isn't much depth to it or threat to it, but you will laugh a lot. that's what people are really picking up on. and there's a lot to be said for that. absolutely. the final selection for this week is breathe. based on the true story of robin cavendish. a man in the late 50s, he was 28 years old. he was disabled by polio and this is the story of how he chose to live as full a life as possible, often using quite unconventional methods,
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and how he was supported by his wife, diana, throughout. directed by andy serkis, a directing debut for him, and claire foy and andrew garfield star in this. let's have a look. how do you feel? much better. diana, what happens if there is a power cut? you are working with a hand pump. it's a nifty bit of kit... look who's here! oh, look. there you go. ooh. look, jonathan. it's daddy. hello, jonathan. hello, dear boy.
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a proper tear—jerker? absolutely, not so much tugging on the heartstrings as yanking on them! you will blub. there are some funny moments but for me, mainly in the second half of the film. it was the funnier moments, or the more peculiar moments that really resonated. sometimes it is a little by the book and predictable, and inevitably, it will be compared to the theory of everything, the movie about steven hawking from a few years ago. maybe it doesn't have the charisma of that. but behind the camera we know andy serkis is a great actor and clearly he's a very good director. from now on after this we will see him directing as much as acting. he has a very confident style. that's a really interesting development. superb actor, he is a fantastically versatile actor. it is striking that he has chosen something that's a real tear—jerker as his first film?
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he said he read the script. it's actually his production partner — it's the story of his parents. his production partner is jonathan cavendish, but when andy serkis read the script he said it was the most emotional thing he had ever read, he had to make it, and it is an emotional watch. let's go onto something completely different — our film of the week. my goodness, i loved death of stalin. right, let's talk about it, then. isn't itjust clever satire? what i love about it, so much, was i watched it and laughed. so, a couple of weeks ago when i saw it. and in the fortnight since, what has really stayed with me is how chilling the whole thing is. i absolutely agree. of course it's an absurd situation these people find themselves in after the death of stalin in 1953 but then you see the backstabbing and the desperate clamouring around to hold onto some sort of power. and the things people will do which affect millions of their citizens in russia. it's chilling.
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and he never lets you forget that people were taken out of their bedss in the middle of the night and thrown into prison, or worse. it's important that that has to be in the film but it's done cleverly. you laugh at the ridiculousness of it but then you go, hang on, there's a dark side to this, which is classic satire. you can see there are five great people in the poster behind you but it's an ensemble cast. they are all fantastic but simon russell beale really stood out for me. he plays beria, the head of security in the secret police. a chilling performance. he's great but they all are great in it. yes, aren't they? fantastic. and a quick thought on the dvd, for anyone who doesn't want to head out? my cousin rachel, based on the daphne du maurier thriller set in victorian era, cornwall. sam claflin stars — he suspects his cousin rachel has killed a mutual relative. but the only problem is, as well as suspecting her, he is also falling in love with rachel, he's also seduced by her.
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he's in an odd position. we never really know whether she did it or not. you are kept guessing by the film. the rachel of the title is played by rachel weisz and just keeps her cards close to her chest throughout. it's a subtle performance and you are really kept guessing. excellent. james, it's good to see you. thank you for being with us. that's all from us for this week. enjoy your cinema—going. goodbye! now the weather. some big swings in temperatures day—to—day. it is cold are firmly in place that has come down from the arctic targeting scotla nd down from the arctic targeting scotland and parts of northern england. if we focus on scotland, in aberdeenshire, it was one of the warmest places in the country
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yesterday. 17 celsius, but since then the winds have changed direction, coming from a northerly direction, coming from a northerly direction and it has been more like 8 degrees, so a drop of 9 degrees and coupled with that, the winds have been gusting 30 miles an hour making it feel chilly and also down the north sea coasts as well. inland there has been plenty of sunshine out and about. overnight, the brisk winds extending down the north sea could bring some isolated showers but this should keep any frost at bay if you live near to these coastal areas. inland it is a different story. the clear skies and light winds allowing temperatures to plummet. 0ne light winds allowing temperatures to plummet. one of the coldest nights we have seen this autumn. temperatures could get down to minus two in northern england and pockets of frost even across part of the south. monday, high pressure is with
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us, monday starts off on a glorious but chilly note. there will be more cloud moving in late in the day across the north west of scotland but the threat of outbreaks of rain here, not amounting to too much. temperatures, eight to 12 degrees. it is cooler than normal for this time of year but the cool weather isn't going to stay much longer. another cold night, potentially with a touch of frost but as high—pressure moves southwards the tuesday, we get more of a south—westerly wind influencing the weather and that will bring milder conditions for most areas as we get into tuesday. turning mild, often quite a bit of cloud around and best of the sunshine in the east. without proper “— of the sunshine in the east. without proper —— weather fronts close to scotland, it will be windy with outbreaks of rain. mild, southerly winds with us to the middle part of the week so temperatures a bit above average. rain affecting western scotla nd average. rain affecting western scotland with the colder airjust in
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the far north. that is your weather. this is bbc news. the headlines at 7.00pm: hundreds of thousands of people march through barcelona in a show of unity with spain and to protest against catalan independence. the prime minister calls for new measures to deal with complaints of sexual harassment against members of parliament. that's after an investigation is launched into the international trade minister mark garnier as he admits asking his secretary to buy sex toys. heathrow airport says it's confident it remains safe, after details of security procedures were found on an unencrypted memory stick. the mexican grand prix gets under way , lewis hamilton only needs a fifth place finish to be crowned world champion. and a win in new south wales brings the england women's cricket team within touching distance of the australians in the ashes.
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