ofthe of the way, helped a van to cars out of the way, helped a van to one side and we would to or three times because of various other stuck traffic and lorries on the roads. —— re—route two or three times. re-route two or three times. we did eventually get there. we're now looking at you walking into the church, it is clearly very, very cold and you are in a white wedding dress. that is not an ideal scenario, is it? so, it was very cold but i was quite nervous! we got some drastic photographs of outside afterwards. how cold was it as he due to having those pictures taken? —— fantastic photographs. the pictures were taken quickly. we just ran out of the car and then straight backin ran out of the car and then straight back in afterwards to get the heating on. i think that makes sense. the vicar, there were tractors and four by force involved. is that right? yes, the vicar, he

got stranded in his car about four miles from the church. he got out and walked about two miles and one of the guests that was coming to the wedding, he picked him up and brought him the rest of the two miles but then, because of the weather, we decided he wanted to get back to his farm to make sure that his stock were all right, so we didn't stay for ceremony. a brief word, i heard that you were going on a honeymoon but that is not happening straightaway? no, we were supposed to be in venice now, so that has been cancelled for the moment and we are hoping to read book for a couple of days' time. —— we are hoping to rebook for a couple of days' time. now on bbc news it's time for the film review with mark kermode and jane hill. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's

releases is mark kermode. what have you been watching? we have red sparrow, the new film starring jennifer lawrence. we have a fantastic woman, which is chile's oscar entry for the foreign language film academy award. and game night. is it a game or is it real? red sparrow. red sparrow is very interesting. it's based on a book by a former cia operative, jason matthews. jennifer lawrence is a russian ballerina who is violently recruited to become a sparrow, an undercover intelligence agent. she is taught how to seduce her prey. she is sent to budapest on the trail of an american, played by joel edgerton, who she meets, and we know she has to win his confidence. it seems early on they both understand what the other is. here is a clip. dominika. you know my name? you told me. you stole my id from the pool. that would be illegal.

were you just looking for me? i would know where to find you if i was. did you want me to know you were following me or are you just clumsy? you americans think we are so interested in you. what made you want to become a translator? my mother is ill. if i work for the government, the state helps me to care for her. my uncle helped me get the job. your uncle is a very powerful man. in my country if you do not matter to the men in power you don't matter. i would like to see you again. why, are we going to become friends? is that what you want? i don't have any. there is a russian restaurant by the opera, have dinner with me. so it is an odd movie. tomorrow at 8. so it is an odd movie. on the one hand it looks like a mainstream glossy thriller, it is directed by francis lawrence, who did some of the hunger games movies, and it has english

and american actors speaking russian accents like that. i wasn't sure about that accent! but the other side is that it is nastier than you would expect. it was precut from an 18 to get a 15 certificate, and in the very first assignment she has, there is a graphic sexual assault, when she is sent to the training camp in which she is led by charlotte rampling. it is really quite tough and distressing and oddly explicit, and then the violence, the outbreaks of violence during the movie are wince inducing fare. i imagine that some people who arejennifer lawrence fans might find it hard to take. there is an argument for saying, actually it's not glamourising it, it's saying this is really rough and nasty stuff. then you think, well, jennifer lawrence's fans have come through mother! she is having a run of peculiar films. absolutely, and she made that strange science fiction movie. i like the fact she makes bold and often strange choices, i like the fact she doesn't play it safe. she is the centre of movie.

it is very changeable tonally, so sometimes it is almost high camp, sometimes it is people chewing the scenery, and sometimes it is really, you know, nasty, and i mean properly nasty, gritty and i know some people have found that intolerable. i think it is interesting, i think it is nothing like as mainstream as i expected it to be, and that is for the better, but it is not for everyone. i cannot handle violence at all, as you know. you are not going to embrace it. it is not going to happen. however... let me suggest you see a fantastic woman, chile's entry for the foreign language film oscar. so the story is daniela vega, who is brilliant as marina. she is a waitress and aspiring singer, who finds herself shut out of her own life, when her older partner dies, and herfamily, the family of her partner suddenly descend and say, you can't come to the funeral, the wake, you cannot stay in the apartment you have been living with orlando in, you need to give back the car. the reason they find her

threatening, not just because she is the other woman with whom orlando ran off, but she is a transgender woman. they consequently think she is a threat to what they call their normal lives. throughout the film, she says, my name is marina, but they refuse to call her that. one of the sons calls her maurice. at one point the wife calls her daniel. it is about her defining her own character, finding her own space. what is interesting is that her name is echoed in the visual motifs throughout the film. it opens with a waterfall, a sea scape on the wall of the bedroom. the film itself goes from being classical romance, to a social realist drama, to a weird lynchian thriller, and at one point it turns into a musical with levitation sequences. i thought it was wonderful. i thought daniela vega was wonderful. mesmerising in the role. you understand and care about her character and the situation she is in, and i thought it was a really good piece of work. i loved it so much i saw it and i went straight back and watched again a second time because i though

there was so much in it. there is a recommendation! fantastic. i look forward to that. game night. i have read quite a lot about this film and i still don't understand what it is about. ok, so it is — basically, here is the best way of describing it. game night. it lifts its rifts from the game, the movie, and date night. hence game night. there are two characters who are obsessed with games, they agree to take part in a murder mystery, but when it starts off maybe it is not a game. maybe it is real. maybe this loaded gun is not a prop. that is the thrill. it is a kind of an idea we have seen done before. if you think about films like afterhours or into the night, normal couple gets sucked into strange underworld crime. however, it begins with them having game night with their friends. here is a clip. come on. and go, go, go. oh, easy. famous actor we met at the airport about eight years ago. who?

the only actor we have met at an airport who's famous. he was in front of us. we wondered why he wasn't in the first class lounge? oh, yes, yes... who was that? god damn it! max, there's is a whole room of people to help you out. use us. good point. he was the incredible hulk. eric banna. other one. mark ruffalo? other one. lou ferigno. holy... primal fear. richard gere never played the incredible hulk. time. ed norton. 0h! that is why those games are so annoying. but you laughed all the way through that. i have this rule that a comedy can only count as a comedy if it makes you laugh more than six times. you laughed more than six times in that clip. here's the thing. i looked at the trailer and thought it is going to be that movie we have seen umpteen versions of, but it got away with it, because the cast gave it their best, the gags are funny.

i think that gag about richard gere, that is good, and that standard of gag is kept up all the way through. even through the set pieces and the very sort of contrived set ups. they bump into people they think are playing being criminals, but they are real criminals, or are they? that goes on all the way through the film, but i kept laughing. it kept me laughing, and nobody was more surprised than i was that that was the case. 0k. i am still not 100% sure. 0k. fantastic woman is one you will love. i look forward to that and i am sure about the shape of water. i love it. it is wonderful. do you feel as strongly as i do? i loved it in a curious way, but i enjoyed every moment. it is great it has been nominated. it looks wonderful, brilliant score, fantastic performances, and i have seen it three times and i will watch it again, because it is a lovely fairy tale. it is splash meets the creature from the black lagoon, and that's an ideal film for me. should i say see it on a big screen?

visually it is so impressive. yes. when it comes out on dvd i will tell you the opposite, i will lie. you will have it in the best dvd category. best dvd for this week is florida project. it is a shame it wasn't more represented at the awards. willem dafoe is the only one who has been represented. i think it is great. it is a humanist, wonderful, modern version of our gang from the director of tangerine. a shame it has fallen into one supporting actor nod. that tells you what you need to know about awards, they are nonsense. thanks! but it is beautifully made and it is starring some people, some of the people in it have not had formal acting training, alongside like people like willem defoe. the real genius of it is you get someone who is a seasoned professional against a first timer and it works, there is no sense of having an imbalance between the performances because actually it is

because the director does a brilliantjob of putting everyone right in the space, and you know, the whole film takes place just beyond the boundaries of disney world, so it is like you have been cast out of the magic kingdom into this nether world. into people in real american poverty. alongside disney world. living in a hotel designed as a resort hotel, but has become a hotel for people who are in poverty, who are homeless, yet there is such vibrancy, such life, the characters are wonderful. i thought it was terrific. i thought it was going to be an awards contender, get everything and that just shows. .. to be fair, you did say that, i wasn't going to remind you. i am the first to admit i can't predict awards. it should have been nominated for more. should have been a contender. thank you very much mark. more next week. before we go, there are all the film news and reviews from across the bbc online, you know the address iam sure. all our previous programmes

are on the iplayer as well. that is it for this week, enjoy your cinema going. see you next time. goodbye. good evening, it's been yet another day of disruptive snowfall across many parts of the uk. as he goes through the weekend, some of that show through the weekend, some of that snow should begin to melts, because it is going to turn less cold. there will be some wintry showers, image to rain, sleet and snow. this band of snowfall is going northwards and it has been freezing rain across parts of the cells, giving freezing conditions. —— parts of the cell. these show was continuing to working

through the night and further south this band of snow will weaken as it d rifts across this band of snow will weaken as it drifts across the midlands, into northern ireland. it will be a cold blood for the majority and there will be some icy stretches and potentially some fog patches. —— a cold night. we are bringing in the cold night. we are bringing in the cold airfrom cold night. we are bringing in the cold air from the east and we have just lost that influence from the east and the south—west will be driving things into the weekend. slowly but surely, things will be turning less chilly. through saturday, this band of light and thatis saturday, this band of light and that is now pushing its way northwards and out of the self some shower pushing in. most of it will fall as rain because temperatures in the far south—west will begin to creep upwards, still only i—3d further north. saturday night, this area of what weather with some snow over the hills that bit north into

the midlands. sunday, drifting across northern england. more likely rain close to the coast. still some snow showers across the north—east of scotland. by this stage, the temperature is higher, 2—8d, nothing to write home about at this time of year but not nearly as cold as it has been. low pressure still the dominant influence early next week. not too white lines on the track, so it will not be specially windy. with this wind, we will draw in some slightly less cold air. looking at the temperatures into the coming week, into double digits across parts of the south. it will take a while to turn less further north. —— less cold further north. this is bbc world news today.

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