who is this person? why are they doing that? if i can understand it, anyone can understand it! you give me hope. pad man. sounds unusual? it is a man in india who invented a low—cost machine for making sanitary pads. he's now credited with breaking the taboo around menstruation. which was putting women at serious risk. the hears a newlywed young man who doesn't understand why his new bride spends five days every month out of the house. then he is appalled by the shame and silence that the women around him suffer every month. he designs a machine to make low—cost sanitary pads, which will not only protect the health of the women but also provides employment. but he does so in a culture in which there is a lot of shame around this subject. the director of the film said he wanted to make the story as accessible as possible. and he does, so it has slapstick comedy, music sequences, laughs, romance and tension. it is a reallyjoyful and uplifting film. it is telling the story, which has its roots in a real—life story. it is obviously a fictionalised

version of a real—life story, but it does stick close to the truth. it is charmingly done and playing to the widest possible audience, and succeeding in taking that story and making it completely accessible, and it is charming and uplifting. another hit. fantastic, wonderful story. as you say, based on a true story? based on a true story, which is more than can be said for 50 shades freed. we do have twilight to thank for this. the story is, having tamed christian grey, anastasia must see if she can find independence and happiness within their marriage. here is a clip. you do want to have kids some day, right? some day, sure. you don't really sound sure. you know what i am sure about? that's great steak. christian...

do you not want to have kids? of course. one day, just not now. i'm not ready to share you, with anyone. he doesn't want children. i can tell her that now. is that the end? there is a narrative arc... it is easy to sneer at the fifty shades movies because they are really not very good. the first one, they tried to do something interesting, but it was too restricted. she tried to change the script and she really couldn't. and these ones, they have pretty much stuck to it, the second one stuck to the ear—scraping dialogue of the source. it is badly written, the actors are doing their best

with pretty intolerable dialogue. james foley is absolutely directing on autopilot. he has been given this as a safe pair of hands. the whole thing ends up looking like a promo simply for a glamorous lifestyle, for fast ca rs and designer apartments. although there is some kinky fetishism, it is very peripheral. what the film is really interested in is, wow, look at that private jet. it is a film about possessions and about those kind of aspirations. in the end it ends up looking like a commercial or pop promo. it makes you look back to the days of nine and a half weeks and think, wow, what a ground—breaking, citizen kane—like movie that was. the laughter i don't know why people get angry because it is playing to a certain audience who are devoted to it. it will pack the audiences out on the first weekend. i am clearly not the target audience. i think as a cinema goer, the first one was the only

one that was vaguely interesting and the next two are just polished and dull. fantastically unremarkable. but you can't criticise the cast. if anybody gave you that dialogue to read, laurence olivier would struggle to deliver some of those lines, which are on the level of, is everything all right? can i get you a latte? laughter. that is literally at the level of engagement. i think i will sleep black panther. have you seen phantom thread again, the last time we met you had seen it four times. no, i have not seen it again. not least because i love johnny greenwood's score. he's been oscar—nominated. i know people say they don't like the central character. you are not meant to like him — he is meant to be difficult. lesley manville steals the show. i think it is paul thomas anderson's

best film since punch drunk love, and weirdly enough i think they make a cracked romance double bill. i would watch phantom thread again but alongside punch drunk love. which i still love. there is something about it. something interesting there. there was a debate whether the costumes he designs are deliberately not very good. everybody says he is a fabulous dress designer, but the first thing he designs has somebody dressed up like the queen of hearts. but that is kind of the point — i really like it. it's certainly a talking point. the dvd, loving vincent. it reminds me of our conversation last week when i said, can you watch blade runner on a dvd?

it is the same about loving vincent. it is an extraordinary achievement in technical terms. and oil painted animated movie, as far as i know the world's first. the narrative itself i think is a bit flimsy, it is about going back to find out what happened in vincent van gogh‘s life. i thought it was stunning from a visual point of view. i have seen it on the big screen and the small screen and it has the same... it is weirdly kind of hypnotising, like watching paintings you know moving around. slightly odd, but stunning. if you have it on dvd, you can go back and watch it again and marvelling at the hours of work that must have gone into creating it. yes. six years of painting to create the film. astonishing. thank you. an interesting week. thank you very much indeed, mark. a quick reminder, you can find all the film news and reviews across the bbc on the website. all our previous programmes are on the iplayer as well. that's it for this week, enjoy your cinema going.

goodbye. hello. today was a brighter day for most of us, some lovely winter sunshine but called lots of snow showers across the west of the country —— it was cold. with lots of snow. the snow showers will continue across western scotland, northern ireland particularly with accumulations of snow. the odd one further south, travelling through the cheshire gap into the midlands but most places will be dry. like i mentioned, watch out for ice where we can see these wintry showers. monday is not looking too bad at all. thanks to the ridge of high

pressure we should see light winds, lots of sunshine around, wintry showers continue across northern and western parts of scotland again and then in the west the wind is picking up then in the west the wind is picking up litter in the day ahead of the system. but a cold day to come across the board, but at least you'll have the sunshine to compensate. goodbye now. goodbye for now. this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm. the international development secretary threatens to cut off state funding to oxfam over its handling of the prostitution scandal involving aid workers. if the moral leadership at the top of the organisation isn't there then we cannot have you as a partner. a russian passenger plane has crashed shortly after taking off from moscow, killing all 71 people on board. theresa may and some of her senior

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